Name

freopen function — Opens a file with an existing stream

Synopsis

FILE* freopen(const char* filename, const char* mode, FILE* stream)

The freopen function opens a file using an existing stream. The file previously associated with the stream is closed first, and the named file is opened in the same manner as if fopen were called. See fopen for a description of the mode parameter.

The main purpose of using freopen is to reopen one of the standard files: stdin, stdout, and stderr.

See Also

fclose function, fopen function

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