Re: Why would "fopen(stdin,"rb")" fail?

"David F" <David-White@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am doing the following:

fclose(stdin);
FILE* fp=fopen(stdin,"rb");

The compiler complains as follows:
error C2664: 'fopen' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'FILE *__w64 '
to 'const char *'

What else did you expect?

Since it has no complain about the fclose(), why would it complain
about fopen?

Because fclose takes a FILE* (a handle to a file), while fopen takes a
char* (a file name).

My purpose is to check the input queue from keyboard, w/o waiting for
the user

See _kbhit, _getch
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