Does fgets() move the file pointer ?

Question

Does the fgets() function move the file pointer automatically to the position till the parameter of the size mentioned by me ?

for example :

the content of the file p.txt is " I am a good boy " . After using fgets(a,5,fp1) does the file pointer move 5 positions ahead ?

Could not find this clearly in any book . Hence the query .

Answer 1

after using fgets(a,5,fp1) does the file pointer move 5 positions ahead ?

The pointer fp1 is not affected by the fgets call (or any other stdio I/O routine); The FILE object that fp1 points to will be updated to reflect the new file position, but the pointer itself does not change.

Answer 2

The file pointer is not modified by the fgets function.

However, the file offset is incremented by the number of bytes actually read.