fwrite

Header: <stdio.h>

Writes count of objects from the given array buffer to the output stream stream. The objects are written as if by reinterpreting each object as an array of unsigned char and calling fputc size times for each object to write those unsigned chars into stream, in order. The file position indicator for the stream is advanced by the number of characters written.

# Declarations

size_t fwrite( const void* buffer, size_t size, size_t count,
FILE* stream );

(until C99)

size_t fwrite( const void* restrict buffer, size_t size, size_t count,
FILE* restrict stream );

(since C99)

# Parameters

# Return value

The number of objects written successfully, which may be less than count if an error occurs.

# Example

#include <assert.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
 
enum { SIZE = 5 };
 
int main(void)
{
    double a[SIZE] = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};
    FILE* f1 = fopen("file.bin", "wb");
    assert(f1);
    size_t r1 = fwrite(a, sizeof a[0], SIZE, f1);
    printf("wrote %zu elements out of %d requested\n", r1, SIZE);
    fclose(f1);
 
    double b[SIZE];
    FILE* f2 = fopen("file.bin", "rb");
    size_t r2 = fread(b, sizeof b[0], SIZE, f2);
    fclose(f2);
    printf("read back: ");
    for (size_t i = 0; i < r2; ++i)
        printf("%0.2f ", b[i]);
}

# See also