C program compares two files

If you want this tutorial in video format then here it is which explains the below program to how to compare two files using C. In the above C program to compare two files contents, first, we opened to open both files which you want to compare. Using the if condition I am verifying that the file is opened successfully or not. For comparing the file content, I have created a function isFileSame. It takes file pointer of both file and structure pointer to get the mismatch position and line.

In this function, I am using the fgetc function to read the file contents. In this function, I am using the if condition to increment the line counter on changing of the new line. Skip to content. About I am an embedded c software engineer and a corporate trainer, currently, I am working as senior software engineer in a largest Software consulting company.

You might also like assert. Examples: Input : file1. Prerequisite : getc in C Steps : 1. Skip to content. Change Language. Related Articles. Table of Contents. Improve Article. Save Article. Like Article. Take a step-up from those "Hello World" programs. Learn to implement data structures like Heap, Stacks, Linked List and many more! Check out our Data Structures in C course to start learning today.

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