Home work getting stuff from a file and putting it into an array

[Jazmin Jasso]

I am writing a program where i need to open a file and store the data from the file into an array.

Ex(what is in the file):

por, because
be, ser
in, en

now I keep getting these error

• 5csce.c:21:5: warning: format â%sâ expects argument of type âchar *â, but argument 3 has type âchar (*)[2]â [-Wformat]
• 5csce.c:21:5: warning: format â%sâ expects argument of type âchar *â, but argument 4 has type âchar (*)[2]â [-Wformat]
• 5csce.c:27:1: warning: format â%sâ expects argument of type âchar *â, but argument 2 has type âintâ [-Wformat]

what does it mean?

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


int main()
{


    FILE * pFile;


    char words[100][2];


//open file


    pFile = fopen("words.dat", "r");
//Read date and store in an array


    fscanf(pFile, "%s, %s", words, words);


// close fiel


    fclose(pFile);


printf("%s\n", words[0][0], words [0][1]);
return 0;
}

[laserlight]

It means that you are passing words as an argument to fscanf such that it matches %s, but words is an array of arrays of char that is converted to a pointer to an array of char, whereas %s matches a pointer to char.

[Malcolm McLean]

You need a 3D array, 100 (line) by 2 (words per line), by the maximum word length, plus one for the nul.