J> i save a digit lets say is 6542 to a file ( XXX.ext )
 J> how would i read the digit in XXX.ext and +/- from it?
 J> HELP!
 J> i save it   fprintf("fptr, %d", total);
                        ^     ^  Move the quote to after fptr,
 J> i tried but it reads the contents of the file as a string!?
This will "save" (print) the total as a string, which is what %d is supposed 
to do.  What you seem to want is:
fwrite(&total, sizeof(total), 1, fptr);
To read this in:
fread(&total, sizeof(total), 1, fptr);
 J> and i cant add # to a string. Is there a way to convert a string -> int?
 J> or read a file as int?
Your way:
fscanf(fptr, "%d", &total);
However, I recommend getting it as a string (look up fgets in your C 
documentation, and get the entire line) and then parsing it manually.
Note that string -> int functions abound.  Personally, I usually use strtol 
or strtoul.
HTH,

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