C Programming Tutorial
In the C Programming Language, the fread function reads nmemb elements (each element is the number of bytes indicated by size) from the stream pointed to by stream and stores them in ptr.
Syntax
The syntax for the fread function in the C Language is:
size_t fread(void *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, FILE *stream);
Parameters or Arguments
ptr
The array where the elements will be stored.
size
The size of each element in bytes.
nmemb
The number of elements to read.
stream
The stream to read.
Returns
The fread function returns the number of elements read. The fread function will return zero if nmemb is zero or size is zero.
Required Header
In the C Language, the required header for the fread function is:
#include <stdio.h>
Applies To
In the C Language, the fread function can be used in the following versions:
- ANSI/ISO 9899-1990
