Thread: smiley faces ????

Hello,
I am trying to make my program read a file thats on my desktop.
When I run the code all I get is smiley faces.
What is the problem with my code?

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stddef.h>

int main (){
	char c;
	char inputText[500];

	FILE* inputFile;

	inputFile=fopen("C:\\Documents and Settings\\User\\My Documents\\GPA.txt","r");

	if (inputFile==NULL){
		printf("Failed to open");
		exit(-1);
	}

	fgets(inputText, 500, inputFile);

	while ((c=getc(inputFile)!=EOF)){
	printf("%c",c);
	}
	fclose(inputFile);
	system("Pause");
}

You could be trying to read in int's, not char's. Try changing c to an int, and print it with %d, instead of %c.

If that doesn't work, paste up a bit of the input file so we can see what's going on (in code tabs, of course).

Code:

fgets(inputText, 500, inputFile);

Is there a specific reason why you're skipping the first 500 bytes of the file? If that really is your intention, fseek( inputFile, 500, SEEK_SET ); might be more appropriate.

good catch, cas!

Originally Posted by cpjust

Code:

fgets(inputText, 500, inputFile);

Is there a specific reason why you're skipping the first 500 bytes of the file? If that really is your intention, fseek( inputFile, 500, SEEK_SET ); might be more appropriate.

And more impossible, if the inputFile happens to be a pipe.