CODEWITHSUNDEEP
c
NewToProgramming
NewToProgramming

Reputation: 9

How to edit a file in C?

I'm new to C and trying to write a program for a hotel and let customers edit their booking details such as first name, last name...etc. The code I wrote can be run but the data in the file is not edited.

The else statement for the line ("Record not found! Please enter your Username and Password again.\n"); is not printed when I entered the wrong username and password as well.

Here is what I got so far:

#define _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h> 
#include <string.h>  
#include <stdbool.h>

struct customer_details  // Structure declaration
{
    char uname[100];
    char pass[100];
    char fname[100];
    char lname[100];
    char ic[100];
    char contact[100];
    char email[100];
    char room[100];
    char day[100];
 }s;


void main()
{
    FILE* f, *f1;
    f = fopen("update.txt", "r");
    f1 = fopen("temp.txt", "w");
    char uname[100], pass[100];
    int valid = 0;

   // validate whether file can be opened.
   if (f == NULL)
   {
       printf("Error opening file!\n");
       exit(0);
   }

   printf("Please enter your Username and Password to update your booking detail.\n");
   printf("\nUsername: ");
   fgets(uname, 100, stdin);
   uname[strcspn(uname, "\n")] = 0;
   printf("Password: ");
   fgets(pass, 100, stdin);
   pass[strcspn(pass, "\n")] = 0;
   while (fscanf(f, "%s %s", s.uname, s.pass) != -1)
   {
       if (strcmp(uname, s.uname) == 0 && strcmp(pass, s.pass) == 0)
       {
           valid = 1;
           fflush(stdin);
           printf("Record found!\n");
           printf("\nEnter First Name: ");
           scanf("%s", &s.fname);
           printf("\nEnter Last Name: ");
           scanf("%s", &s.lname);
           printf("\nEnter IC Number: ");
           scanf("%s", &s.ic);
           printf("\nEnter Contact Number:");
           scanf("%s", &s.contact);
           printf("\nEnter Email: ");
           scanf("%s", &s.email);
           printf("\nEnter Room ID :");
           scanf("%s", &s.room);
           printf("\nEnter Days of staying:");
           scanf("%s", &s.day);
           fseek(f, sizeof(s), SEEK_CUR); //to go to desired position infile
           fwrite(&s, sizeof(s), 1, f1);
        }
       else
           ("Record not found! Please enter your Username and Password again.\n");
   }
   fclose(f);
   fclose(f1);
   if (valid == 1)
   {
    
       f = fopen("update.txt", "r");
       f1 = fopen("temp.txt", "w");
       while (fread(&s, sizeof(s), 1, f1))
       {
           fwrite(&s, sizeof(s), 1, f);
       }
       fclose(f);
       fclose(f1);
       printf("Record successfully updated!\n");
   }
}

This is what the update.txt file contains:

abc 123 First Last 234 33667 [email protected] 101 3

Upvotes: 0

Views: 105

Answers (1)

August Karlstrom
August Karlstrom

Reputation: 11377

You forgot the printf call, change

("Record not found! Please enter your Username and Password again.\n");

to

printf("Record not found! Please enter your Username and Password again.\n");

If you compile your program with warnings enabled you should get a warning like

t.c:68:12: warning: statement with no effect [-Wunused-value]
            ("Record not found! Please enter your Username and Password again.\n");
            ^

Upvotes: 2

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