Thread: Help with calloc (size of the elements)

Hi everybody, I am new to this forum so I apologize in advance for any mistake.

Here is my problem:

I am writting a code in C that reads words from a txt document and puts them in an array. I don't know the number of the words so the size of the array must be dynamic. So I use the command calloc. The problem I think comes from the fact that I make a new type of element named word in order to make the size of the elements of the dynamic array word byte long. Here is my code:

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#define IN 1
#define OUT 0

main() {
       int nc, nw, state;
       char c;
       FILE *fp;
       
       int i, n;
       char * DAT;
       typedef char word[20];
       
       
       state = OUT;
       fp = fopen("C:naasas.txt", "r");
       nw = nc = 0;
       while (fscanf(fp, "%c", &c) &&  !feof(fp)) {
             ++nc;
             if(c == ' ' || c == '\n' || c == '\t') {
                  state = OUT;
             }
             else if(state == OUT) {
                  state = IN;
                  ++nw;
             }
             if(c == EOF) {
                  printf("the end\n");
             }
       }
       fclose (fp);
       printf("%d %d\n", nc, nw);
      
       fp = fopen("C:naasas.txt", "r");
       DAT = (char*) calloc (nw, sizeof(word));
       if (DAT == NULL) {
               printf("XXXXX");
       }
       else {
            printf("YYYYYY");
            for (i = 0; i <= nw-1; i++) {
                                         fscanf(fp, "%s", &DAT[i]);
            }
       }
       fclose (fp);
        
       
       for (i = 0; i <= nw-1; i++) {
           printf("%s \n", DAT[i]);
       }

       system("PAUSE");
       return 0;
}

I would appreciate it if you can tell me my mistake and help me fix it. I am using Dev-C++ on windows 7.
Thank you in advance

You also need to check the return value of fopen() and exit if it doesn't work. I'm betting the file never gets opened because your file path is invalid in Windows...

Code:

fp = fopen("C:naasas.txt", "r");

// should be --------------------------

FILE *fp = NULL;  // initialize file handle


fp = fopen("C:\\naasas.txt", "r");   // open file
if (fp == NULL)                    // check for errors
  { printf("The file did not open correctly! \n\n");
     exit(1); }