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Updating C: removing non standard header file

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
88/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
c
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Open source/_posts/c.md and search for conio.h and functions such as getch() and clrscr(). Check the listed occurrence sections, including fgetc(), fputs(), fgets(), rewind(), and ftell(), for references to the non-standard header or functions. Done means those references are removed from the C cheatsheet.

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Description

Removing non standard header file <conio.h>

<conio.h> header file has never been a part of standard C, but the cheatsheet contains it. It is not supported by modern standards like C99 or later. Remove the header file as well as the functions like getch(), clrscr(), etc

Issue at C.md file

Occurrence sections

Read the file: fgetc()
Write to file: fputs()
Read files: fgets()
rewind()
ftell()

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