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Once you open a file for output, you must switch from printf to fprintf, an acronym for file print field. The fprintf function takes an additional argument, a file pointer, and writes to the file associated with the file pointer instead of to your screen. Thus, the following statement tells C to write a result into the file identified by the analysis_target pointer:

fprintf (analysis_target, 
         "The total value of the %i trades is %f.\n", 
                                 limit,       sum);