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Post - 12 🌟 Working Concept in C Supporting CAPL Code 🌟 In one of my recent posts, I shared a CAPL example where I demonstrated how to read data from a file and feed it into a CAN signal. To better understand the working mechanism, here’s the equivalent implementation in C programming that conceptually supports that CAPL code. This C code showcases: 1️⃣ File Handling using fopen(), fread(), and fclose(). 2️⃣ Pointer and Memory Management with malloc() and free(). 3️⃣ File Pointer Manipulation through fseek() and ftell(). 4️⃣ Reading and Processing File Data in a structured and safe manner. Here’s the C code: #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> int main() {   FILE *fp;   fp = fopen("file1.txt", "rb");   if (fp == NULL)   {     printf("There is problem with opening the file\n");   }   long int lp;   char *ptr;   fseek(fp, 0, SEEK_END); // Move the file pointer to the end of the file   lp = ftell(fp);     // Get the byte size of the file   fseek(fp, 0, SEEK_SET); // Move the file pointer to the start of the file   ptr = (char *)malloc(sizeof(lp) + 1); // Allocate memory for file content   ptr[lp + 1] = '\0';          // Add null terminator   fread(ptr, lp, 1, fp);        // Read the file content in one go   printf("%s", ptr);          // Print the file content   printf("\n");   printf("%ld\n", lp);         // Print the size of the file   fclose(fp);              // Close the file   free(ptr);              // Free allocated memory   ptr = NULL;   return 0; } Why This is Relevant This code demonstrates the underlying mechanisms used in CAPL: 🔹 CAPL’s openFileRead() is conceptually like fopen() in C. 🔹 CAPL’s fileGetString() resembles fread(). 🔹 CAPL’s fileRewind() matches the use of fseek() and rewind() to reset the file pointer. 🔹 CAPL’s dynamic file reading and signal updates are modeled by reading and printing file content in C. Conclusion Understanding the C concepts behind CAPL helps bridge the gap between high-level automotive scripting and low-level system programming, making debugging and optimization much more intuitive! 🚗💻 Let me know your thoughts and how you approach such integrations in your projects!

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