C library function - fwrite()

Description

The C library function size_t fwrite(const void *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, FILE *stream) writes data from the array pointed to by ptr to the given stream.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for fwrite() function.

size_t fwrite(const void *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, FILE *stream)

Parameters

• ptr -- This is the pointer to the array of elements to be written.

• size -- This is the size in bytes of each element to be written.

• nmemb -- This is the number of elements, each one with a size of size bytes.

• stream -- This is the pointer to a FILE object that specifies an output stream.

Return Value

This function returns the total number of elements successfully written is returned as a size_t object, which is an integral data type.If this number differs from the nmemb parameter, it will show an error.

Example

The following example shows the usage of fwrite() function.

#include<stdio.h>

int main ()
{
   FILE *fp;
   char str[] = "This is tutorialspoint.com";

   fp = fopen( "file.txt" , "w" );
   fwrite(str , 1 , sizeof(str) , fp );

   fclose(fp);
  
   return(0);
}

Let us compile and run the above program, this will create a file file.txt which will have following content:

This is tutorialspoint.com