File and String Manipulation

Would Really Appreciate any help!!!!!!!!
I am a newbee in programming and finding this to be a very tricky question.

Need help to write a C program that will create scrambled words by circularly rotating the middle characters of each word by 1 character.
Place the scrambled words, 1 per line in an output file.

Example:
sunday becomes sndauy

The Input File format is such that the first line contains a number indicating the number of words in the file, followed by one line for every word to be scrambled (no spaces in any of the words).

Sample input file:
3
hut
create
ready
people

Sample output file:
hut
ceatre
radey
poplee

How do you get the input and output file names?
I'd use stdin and stdout with command line redirection, as in
$ myprogram < wordlist.txt > scrambled.txt

You'll assuredly respond that that is illegal. Even so, it might be a good start.

Can you write a program that copies input to output?
Opens a file for reading or for writing?

Why is people scrambled in your output example?

Hi, thanks for responding..

I would create the text files, one for input and one for output.
The program has to read the files from The input text file (e.g. input.txt) and write the scrambled words to output file (e.g output.txt)

The scramble words are created by circularly rotating the middle characters of each word by 1 character.
That is how all the words are shown including "people"in the previous example.

I have tried coding and my program is all over in bits and pieces .

Would really appreciate your response.

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