Write a program to delete a specified line from a text file.

In this program, user is asked for a filename he needs to change. User is also asked for the line number that is to be deleted. The filename is stored in'filename' . The file is opened and all the data is transferre d to another file except that one line the user specifies to delete.

Program: Program to delete a specific line.

# include int main(){
FILE *fp1, *fp2;
// consider 40 character string to store filename
char filename[4 0];
char c;
int del_line, temp = 1;
//asks user for file name
printf("En ter file name:");
// receives file name from user and stores in'filename'
scanf("%s" , filename);
//open file in read mode
fp1 = fopen(file name,"r");
c = getc(fp1);
//until the last character of file is obtained
while (c != EOF)
{
printf("%c ", c);
//print current character and read next character
c = getc(fp1);
}
//rewind
rewind(fp1 );
printf("\n Enter line number of the line to be deleted:") ;
//accept number from user.
scanf("%d" ,&del_line) ;
//open new file in write mode
fp2 = fopen("cop y.c","w");
c = getc(fp1);
while (c != EOF){
c = getc(fp1);
if (c =='\n')
temp++;
//except the line to be deleted
if (temp != del_line)
{
//copy all lines in file copy.c
putc(c, fp2);
}
}
//close both the files.
fclose(fp1 );
fclose(fp2 );
//remove original file
remove(fil ename);
//rename the file copy.c to original name
rename("co py.c", filename);
printf("\n The contents of file after being modified are as follows:\n ");
fp1 = fopen(file name,"r");
c = getc(fp1);
while (c != EOF){
printf("%c ", c);
c = getc(fp1);
}
fclose(fp1 );
return 0;
}
Output:
Enter file name:abc.t xt
hi.
Hello
how are you?
I am fine
hope the same
Enter line number of the line to be deleted:4
The contents of file after being modified are as follows:
hi.
hello
how are you?
hope the same
Explanatio n:
In this program, user is asked for a filename that needs to be modified. Entered file name is stored in a char array'filename' . This file is opened in read mode using file pointer'fp1'. Character'c'is used to read characters from the file and print them to the output. User is asked for the line number in the file to be deleted. The file
pointer is rewinded back and all the lines of the file except for the line to be deleted are copied into another file "copy.c". Now"copy.c"is renamed to the original filename. The original file is opened in read mode and the modified contents of the file are displayed on the screen.