Ignoring white spaces and putting all copied characters on 1 line.

[code_bunny]

Hello. Currently my code is supposed to be copying the 21st character or the last character if it's less than 21 onto a new file. I need to ignore spaces, and it's not. In addition, I need it to place all these character copied on one line. Which I can't figure out what to do. Here's my code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main (void){

    FILE* sp1;
    FILE* sp2;
    int curCh; // variable 1
    int preCh; // variable 2
    int countCh = 0; // variable 3;
    int whiteSpace = 0; // var4
    int closeStatus;

    printf("File copy has started\n");
    if (!(sp1 = fopen ("FILE1.DAT", "r"))){
        printf("Error opening FILES1.DAT for reading");
        return (1);
    }//if open
    if (!(sp2 = fopen ("FILES2.DAT", "w"))){
        printf("Error opening FILES2 for writing");
        return (2);
    }

    while ((curCh = fgetc(sp1)) != EOF){
        countCh++;
        if ( curCh == ' ')
                whiteSpace = 0;
        if(curCh == '\n' ){
            if (countCh < 21 && whiteSpace != 0)
                fputc (preCh, sp2);
                fputc (' ', sp2);
            countCh = 0;
        }

        whiteSpace = 1;
        if ( countCh == 21 && whiteSpace != 0){
            fputc(curCh, sp2);
            fputc (' ', sp2);

        }
        preCh = curCh; 
    }        
    fputc ('\n', sp2);
    fclose(sp1);
    closeStatus = fclose(sp2);
    if (closeStatus == EOF)
    {
        printf("File close error.\a\n");
        return 201;
    } // if close error 

    printf("File successfully created\n");
    system ("pause");
    return 0;
}]

[phantomotap]

Another one of these guys?

What is it with people and being deliberately unhelpful even to themselves?

*shrug*

I can see from looking at your code that you haven't included most any of the changes you've been told to make in any of the forums where you've posted this problem.

Do try to help yourself. If you try to help yourself we will be happy to help you in turn. We aren't going to do it for you.

For example, let's see you incorporate the changes that has already been suggested for exactly this code.

Soma

[code_bunny]

Thanks ..........