From: "Aleksey Kondratyev" <akondra AT no-spam-mv DOT ru>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Problem writing in a file... the sequel
Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 12:58:27 +0400
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JCx wrote

>   while (texte!=NULL)
>   {
>      fgets(texte,80,source);
>      fputs(texte,destination);
>      if (texte[0]=='[')
>       if (texte[1]=='d')
>        if (texte[2]=='r')
>         if (texte[3]=='i')
>          if (texte[4]=='v')
>           if (texte[5]=='e')
>            if (texte[6]=='r')
>             if (texte[7]=='s')
>              if (texte[8]=='3')
>               if (texte[9]=='2')
>                if (texte[10]=']')
>                {
>                   fprintf(destination,"test string\n");
>                   printf("\nString added.\n");
>                }
>   }

I did not see your previous postings but it seems that you should consider
reading a good book about C language. texte in your example is an address
of a static array of char and it is not changed: texte!=NULL is always true
(you are able to change a variable texte but it is not a good idea). You
could want to write *texte='\0' if your file is "\n\0" terminated. Although,
it is really  better to use feof(FILE *) to check if the end of file is
encounted.

Also, there exists strncmp(const char *,const char *,size_t) library
function. Multiple if's are substituted by
strncmp(texte,"[drivers32]",sizeof("[drivers32]")-1) using it.
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