Is there a way to move back the line just read after calling fgets? I know when you use fgetc you can do ungetc. Is there a way I can do something similar for fgets?
The reason I am asking this is because I have an fgets in an if statment and I dont want the fgets to be actually executed I just want to know whether it is going to return a NULL or not. But I know that if the fgets is within an if statement it will be executed. This is why I want to know how can I move it back to the point in the file before fgets was called.
There is no fungets.
You can save a position in an input stream using ftell, and reposition to that point using fseek. It is useful for files, but not reading from the terminal (i.e., the standard input).
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