Question

Please answer the following questions in terms of C syntax: [q9_3]:

Fill in the blanks in each of the following:

a) Computers store large amounts of data on secondary storage devices as __________.

b) A(n) __________ is composed of several fields.

c) To facilitate the retrieval of specific records from a file, one field in each record is chosen as a(n) __________.

d) A group of related characters that conveys meaning is called a(n) __________.

e) The file pointers for the three streams that are opened automatically when program execution begins are named __________, __________ and __________.

f) Function __________ writes a character to a specified file.

g) Function __________ writes a line to a specified file.

h) Function __________ is generally used to write data to a random-access file.

i) Function __________ repositions the file position pointer to the beginning of the file.

Answer 1

a) FILES

b) RECORD

C) Key

D) Field

e) THE STANDARD INPUT, THE STANDARD OUTPUT, THE STANDARD ERROR

f) fputc

g) fputs

h) fwrite

I) fseek, seekset