CHAPTER 21 — Files and File Output

Files are extremely useful, since often the data for a program comes from a file and often the results are stored in a file. You already know about files since you have been creating and using files in following these notes (and probably in your other work, as well). This chapter discusses how to send the output of a program to a file.

Chapter Topics:

• Idea of a file
• Text files
• Redirecting output to a text file

The next chapter discusses how to read data from a file. For a full discussion of file I/O you will have to until much later in these notes.