help please , a fgets question

[dogger]

i have this function that i need to build

int isIn(char *name1, char *name2)
{
char *bufferbig;
fgets(bufferbig,256,name1);
}

name1 and name2 are file names
and i'm trying to read the line from there and put it in a string but it won't let me use name1 as the file name
any leads anyone ?

[quzah]

You need to use fopen on your names to open a file (and to fclose it when done), then you need to allocate space for bufferbig with something like malloc (and of course you will need to free it when you are done).


Quzah.

[tabstop]

You must first open the file with fopen, before you can read from it with fgets.

[dogger]

ohhh ok i get it now
it was pretty weird there for a second
thanks a lot helpers !!!

[rags_to_riches]

Do you need bufferbig outside of the isIn function? If not, allocate it as an array on the stack:

int isIn(const char *name1, char *name2)
{
    char bufferbig[256];
    fgets(bufferbig,sizeof(bufferbig),name1);
}