fputs

In the computer lab at school we wrote a program using fputs and the compiler returned an error gets is a dangerous function to use and a similar error for fputs but at home when i type in this bit of code: #include <stdio.h> main() { FILE *fp; char name[20]; fp = fopen("name.txt","w"); gets(name); fputs(name,fp); fclose(fp); } i get no errors what so ever. The one at school was similar to this one, just a bit lengthy and having more variables. I use codeblocks at home and the default gcc provided with fedora at school. Could it be a problem with the compiler? With gets you need exactly know

I've been having trouble with fputs lately: when printing some strings in a text file with fputs, it happens I get other characters than A-Z, a-z, 0-9 in (chars that aren't part of the string). I made absolutely sure the strings all end with the null character. Unfortunately I can't give you more information, since I did not personally test the program, that was the feedback I received. But after I replaced fputs with fprintf it worked properly. So my question is: is fputs sort of dangerous? Have you ever had trouble with it? fputs is not inherently dangerous. Of course without example code

Here is my current problem: I am trying to create a file of x MB in C++. The user will enter in the file name then enter in a number between 5 and 10 for the size of the file they want created. Later on in this project i'm gonna do other things with it but I'm stuck on the first step of creating the darn thing. My problem code (so far): char empty[1024]; for(int i = 0; i < 1024; i++) { empty[i] = 0; } fileSystem = fopen(argv[1], "w+"); for(int i = 0; i < 1024*fileSize; i++){ int temp = fputs(empty, fileSystem); if(temp > -1){ //Sucess! } else{ cout<<"error"<<endl; } } Now if i'm doing my math