Why won't this work?

[esbo]

I am reading a file in a loop, the following line reads from the file

		
char var1[2000];
int rn;
//etc......


		rn=fscanf(textfile,"%[^\n]\n",var1);

Here is a bit of the file it reads which has a problem.
It reads each line into var1 as expected however it does not read
the line which starts with a space eg " Game #7533141350 starts. "
It completely loses it and carries on OK as if he line never existed.
Why is this? I think I have came across this before but forget how I
fixed it. As it happens it's not a problem as that line is not important
for what I am doing but I would like to know what I am doing wrong
and how to fix it!!

GT_champ shows [ 5c, Ac ]two pairs, Fives and Twos.
GT_champ wins $0.14 USD from the main pot with two pairs, Fives and Twos.
 Game #7533141350 starts.

#Game No : 7533141350 
***** Hand History for Game 7533141350 *****

[Prelude]

>rn=fscanf(textfile,"%[^\n]\n",var1);
Keep in mind that any whitespace in the format string means "any kind and amount of whitespace". If you just want to extract the newline after the scanset, it's best to do so after fscanf so you have more control:

rn=fscanf(textfile,"%[^\n]",var1);
fgetc(textfile); /* Trim newline */

[itCbitC]

Are you trying to simply read each line into var1?

[Prelude]

>Are you trying to simply read each line into var1?
The evidence suggests yes:

It reads each line into var1 as expected [...]

[itCbitC]

Thanks for the clarification Prelude, guess that's what happens when I skim over the post. Well the posted code doesn't run into issues on my box.

[esbo]

Actualy just noticed that when I look at it in the editor is shows a null
at the start of the missing line.

Last time I looked it appeared to be a space. Not sure why it change
how it was displayed in notepad++

6f 73 23 od oa 00 47 61
 o  s    .               G  a

So... I presume it does work but when I try to print what I have read
or do anything with it it reads the null as the end of string and ignores
the rest.

Is what I am doing the best way to read from the file?

[Salem]

Using
while ( fgets( buff, sizeof buff, fp ) != NULL )
in the first instance would be best.
Then you can do whatever you want with buff when it's in memory.

Mixing input with validation and conversion all in one call is just too hard to get right without a hell of a lot of messing about.