Help with reading a string file into a 2d array

[mshel130]

cant get it to print an external file
i have a file called months.dat
with all the months in the file...

#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>
#define MAX_LEN 100

int main(void)
{
  int i;
  char filename[MAX_LEN];
  char words[12][MAX_LEN];

    printf("Give the file you want to open: ");
    scanf("%s",filename);
    FILE *inp=fopen("months.dat","r");  //open file for reading
     if(inp==NULL)
       printf("File does not exist");  //prints error message
     else
      {

          while(fscanf(inp,"%s",words[i])!=EOF)  //scan for a word
             {  // i++; //increase letter by one

                 printf("%s",words[i-1]);
                 i++;

             }







}
fclose(inp);
return(0);
}

[jimblumberg]

I don't see where you are initializing your variable i to a value. It must be initialized before you can use it for the index variable for your array.

Jim

[mshel130]

If. We're to initialize I=0; I still get random symbols when I run the program...I can't figure out why.

[jimblumberg]

And if you initialize i to zero, which is probably correct, what happens the first time through this loop?

          while(fscanf(inp,"%s",words[i])!=EOF)  //scan for a word
             {  // i++; //increase letter by one
 
                 printf("%s",words[i-1]);

Why i - 1?

Jim

[mshel130]

Sorry the "//" befor I++ shouldn't be there. The words[i-1] was supposed to take away the \0 from the string to make it an array.
I'm just rally confused about the whole concept of reading a string file into a 2d array.
I figured by incrementing "I" I can scan though the whole file until I come to the end of it