#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
        FILE *inp;
        int input_status;
        int n;

        inp = fopen("xy.txt", "r"); //opens files
        input_status = fscanf(inp, "%d", &n); //takes digits

        while (input_status != EOF) //loop repeats till end of file
        {
                printf( "%d\n",n);// instead of this i need something that assigns it to i, and to the value of the element in array x, x[i]
                input_status = fscanf(inp, "%d", &n);
                }
                fclose(inp);

}

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
        int x[10], y[10];
        FILE *inp;
        int ret, l, m, n;

        inp = fopen("file.txt", "r");
        while ((ret = fscanf(inp, "%d%d%d", &n, &m, &l)) != EOF && ret == 3) {
            x[n-1] = l;
            y[n-1] = m;
            printf("n = %d\nx[%d] = %d\ny[%d] = %d\n", n, n-1, m, n-1, l);
        }
        fclose(inp);
}