Start fgets at nth line?

Hi, when using fgets it reads the first line of the file, but say the first 20 lines of the file are not of interest to a particular part of the program, then how can we read the 21st, or any other specified line? fgets doesn't seem to provide an option for this, so can it only be implemented using loops/counters?

There is no standard way to do that - if you know the size of your lines, it is POSSIBLE that you could use fseek() to get to the nth line. But the common way to get to the nth line is to simply read n lines using (for example) fgets.

Edit: And before someone else points it out, yes, fseek() on text-files is undefined for all but either: values got from ftell() or 0, and only SEEK_SET is defined under these circumstances. Using any other variation on fseek() is undefined, and may work, or may crash the system, or do something else [most likely some arbitrarily "wrong" thing, or nothing]

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Mats

Thanks, I'll have a look at fseek, though the size of the lines I want to miss can vary from file to file. I guess if reading those lines with fgets works, then I'll just do that.

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Originally Posted by bertazoid

Thanks, I'll have a look at fseek, though the size of the lines I want to miss can vary from file to file. I guess if reading those lines with fgets works, then I'll just do that.

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fgets n times with a long enough buffer should be the right thing to do in this case.

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Mats