C Program to Display its own Source Code as Output

This is a C Program to display its own source code as its output.

Problem Description

This program displays its own source code as its output.

Problem Solution

1. Display the content from the same file you are writing the source code.

Program/Source Code

Here is source code of the C Program to display its own source code as its output.The C program is successfully compiled and run on a Linux system. The program output is also shown below.

  1. /*
  2.  * C Program to Display its own Source Code as its Output
  3.  */
  4. #include <stdio.h>
  5.  
  6. int main()
  7. {
  8.     FILE *fp;
  9.     char ch;
  10.  
  11.     fp = fopen(__FILE__,"r");
  12.     do
  13.     {
  14.         ch = getc(fp);
  15.         putchar(ch);
  16.      }
  17.      while (ch != EOF);
  18.      fclose(fp);
  19.      return 0;
  20. }
Program Explanation

1. Open the file you are currently writing using statement fopen(__FILE__,”r”) and assign it to the pointer fp.
2. Scan the every character of the file and store it in the variable ch. Print it using statement putchar(ch).
3. Do step 2 until EOF (end of file).
4. Then close the file and exit.

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Runtime Test Cases
Output:
 
/*
 * C Program to display its own source code as its output
 */
#include <stdio.h>
 
int main()
{
    FILE *fp;
    char ch;
 
    fp = fopen(__FILE__,"r");
    do
    {
        ch = getc(fp);
        putchar(ch);
     }
     while (ch != EOF);
     fclose(fp);
     return 0;
}

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