Thread: Counting words in a file

I am using the following program to print the document GPA.txt and to figure out how many times the word "pets" is in that document.
I manually counted it and it's in there 4 times.
The document prints, but it keeps telling me that 'pets' is not in the file (0 times).
Please let me know what I am doing wrong.
Thank you

Code:

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

int main (){
	char c;
	char inputText[500];
	int countSame=0;

	//printf("Please enter the name of your file:");
	//scanf("%s",fileName);

	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);

		if( strcmp( inputFile, "pets" ) == 0 ) {
			countSame++;
		}
	}

	printf("There are %i matches for pets", countSame);
	system("Pause");


}

If you had included string.h, you would have discovered that the first argument of strcmp has to be a char*, as opposed to a FILE *.

so how would i go about fixing that
i tried using c and c* and thats not working

i also tried inputText with no luck