What exactly is the FILE keyword in C?

Question

I\'ve started learning some C as a hobby and have blindly used FILE as a declaration for file pointers for quite some time, and I\'ve been wondering. Is this a keyword or sp

Answer 1

It's not a keyword, it's a data type defined in the ANSI C standard to operate with files. It usually points to an internal structure that describes the file and its current state to the library functions.