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+/**************************************************************************
+ *
+ * Purpose: To filter some records.
+ * Demonstrates the 'continue', 'feof' & 'fgets' statemnts.
+ * Author: M J Leslie
+ * Date: 07-Jun-94
+ *
+ *************************************************************************/
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+main()
+{
+ char data[80]; /* Record read from the file. */
+ FILE *ptr; /* Pointer to the file. FILE is a
+ structure defined in <stdio.h> */
+
+ /* Open the file - no error checking done */
+ ptr = fopen("/etc/hosts","r");
+ /* Read one record at a time, checking
+ for the End of File. EOF is defined
+ in <stdio.h> as -1 */
+
+ while (feof(ptr) == 0)
+ {
+ fgets(data, 80, ptr); /* Read next record */
+ if (data[0] == '#') continue; /* filter out the comments */
+ printf("%s",data); /* O/P the record to the screen */
+ }
+
+ fclose(ptr); /* Close the file. */
+}