• fclose() function is used to releases the memory stream, opened by fopen().
• The fclose() function is used to close an already opened file.
• A file must be closed as soon as all operations on it have been completed. This would close the file associated with the file pointer.
• The input output library supports the function to close a file; it is in the following format.
Syntax :
int fclose( FILE * stream );
Return valu e :
Here fclose() function closes the file and returns zero on success, or EOF if there is an error in closing the file. This EOF is a constant defined in the header file stdio.h.