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https://github.com/ucsb-cs16-s18-mirza/cs16-s18-lectures/tree/master/lec-06

Topics

File I/O basics

Intro to lab03
Examining text files using 1) an editor 2) cat command
Opening a file: open()
Reading a line from a file: getline()
Reading until the end of file is reached
Detecting failures
Printing error messages to standard error with cerr
When do we use exit() and why?