Thread: fgets and skipping a line...

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    fgets and skipping a line...

    Hi, I'm using fgets to read in from a file...
    What I want to do is have it check to see if the first character of a line is 'a', if so, it moves to next line and then does something with that next line... Here is what I have so far, but I'm not sure how to skip to the next line, if you see what I mean.
    Thanks.

    Code:
        char OneLine[200];
        
        FILE *fp = fopen("file.txt","r");
        
        if (fp != NULL) {
            while (fgets(OneLine, 199, fp) != NULL) {
    			
    			if (OneLine[0] == 'a')
    			{
                                   // SKIP TO NEXT LINE...
                                   // if next line....
    			}

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    If you do nothing else, you'll return to the while statement and read the next line automatically.
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    This has nothing to do with your question, but just so you know: You can pass fgets() the entire size of the array; you don't have to subtract one (unless, for some reason, you want to last byte of the array to be untouched by fgets()). This way you can do something easy like:
    Code:
    char buf[1024];
    while(fgets(buf, sizeof buf, fp) != NULL) { ... }

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    Cool, thanks to both of you.

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