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Diary Application in C Programming

Aditya Bhuyan
3 min readFeb 5, 2025

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Welcome to the Diary Application tutorial! In this program, you’ll learn how to create a simple diary application that allows you to write and save your daily entries.

Introduction

A diary application allows users to record their thoughts, feelings, and experiences in a structured format. By using this simple program, you can store your daily thoughts securely and review them whenever you need. This tutorial will guide you through creating a basic C program that enables you to write, save, and load diary entries.

Objective

The objective of this program is to create a diary application where users can:

  • Write a daily entry.
  • Save the entry in a text file.
  • View previous diary entries.

Code

#include #include void write_entry() { FILE *file; char entry[1000]; // Open the file in append mode to add new entries file = fopen("diary.txt", "a"); if (file == NULL) { printf("Error opening the file.\n"); return; } printf("Enter your diary entry: \n"); getchar(); // To consume newline character left in the buffer fgets(entry, sizeof(entry), stdin); // Write the entry to the file fprintf(file, "Entry: \n%s\n\n", entry); printf("Your entry has been saved successfully.\n")…

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Aditya Bhuyan
Aditya Bhuyan

Written by Aditya Bhuyan

I am Aditya. I work as a cloud native specialist and consultant. In addition to being an architect and SRE specialist, I work as a cloud engineer and developer.

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