Thread: C noob needs help with reading words from a file and printing them with a word count

Hello, this is my first post here. I know literally no one else that can help me.

I'm trying to read the words from a file and printing them out along with the number of the word. For example - if the file said "Hello my name is Meelad" the output would look like this

Hello 1
my 2
name 3
is 4
Meelad 5

This is my code :

Code:

int make_dictionary(char *fname)
{
	FILE *fp;                                                         /* File open* */
	fp = fopen(fname, "r");
	char c;                                                           /* Variable for getc() */
	char phrase[101];                                                 /* String holder */
	int wordcount = 1;                                                /* Word counter */
	int i;                                                            /* Character counter */

	if( fp == NULL )
        {
        printf( "Oops! Could not open the file %s\n", fname );
        }

	for(i = 0; (c = getc(fp)) != EOF; i++)
	{
        if( c == EOF )
		{
			break;                                                     /* End of file! */
		}
        else if(isalpha(c) != 0)
		{
			phrase[i] = c;
			printf("%s", phrase);
			wordcount++;
			printf(" %d\n", wordcount);
		}
		else if(isalpha(c) == 0)
		{
			phrase[i] = '\0';
			i = 0;
		}
	}
	return wordcount;
}

int main()
{
	make_dictionary("words.txt");
	return 0;
}

My output is far different, it's posting special characters and I don't know why because, as I said before, am a C noob. If this is breaking any of the rules, let me know.

Edit: This is a homework assignment, but this is just a small portion of it that I can't get to work correctly.

Edit2: I'm also not sure about what to do when there's multiple non alphabetic characters in a row.

Edit3: I think I may have found out the answer. Sorry if this is spam now, I can't find out how to delete the post :\