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<span id="C_002dStyle-I_002fO-Functions-1"></span><h3 class="section">14.2 C-Style I/O Functions</h3>
<p>Octave’s C-style input and output functions provide most of the
functionality of the C programming language’s standard I/O library. The
argument lists for some of the input functions are slightly different,
however, because Octave has no way of passing arguments by reference.
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<p>In the following, <var>file</var> refers to a filename and <code>fid</code> refers
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<p>There are three files that are always available. Although these files
can be accessed using their corresponding numeric file ids, you should
always use the symbolic names given in the table below, since it will
make your programs easier to understand.
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<dt id="index-stdin">: <em></em> <strong>stdin</strong> <em>()</em></dt>
<dd><p>Return the numeric value corresponding to the standard input stream.
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line editing functions.
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