Can someone help me fix my code! Thank you!

**arti** · 05-15-2013

I'm reading from the data file and it prints out with like so:

Code:

**************************************

*                                             *

My code is printed below....I can't have the spaces and i thought that NULL was supposed to eliminate the blankline. What am I doing wrong? If I use printf after fgets i get garbage and sometimes errors that i cannot convert char to char.

Code:

if(fgets(line, MAXLINE, inputFILE)!=NULL)
    puts(line);
 if(fgets(line, MAXLINE, inputFILE)!=NULL)
    puts(line); 
 if(fgets(line, MAXLINE, inputFILE)!=NULL)
    puts(line);

**DRK** · 05-16-2013

fgets returns NULL only if a read error occurs or end of file is reached. 'Blank' line (that is line containing only new-line character) is still valid for fgets. You need to check characters in your line buffer. Line could be terminated with \n or \r\n.

EDIT:
puts appends new-line character at end of the string so you end up with 2 new-line characters resulting in displaying 'blank' line. Use printf instead.

Code:

if (fgets(line, MAXLINE, inputFILE) != NULL && line[0] != '\r' && line[0] != '\n')
{
    printf("%s", line);
}

**grumpy** · 05-16-2013

Originally Posted by DRK

puts appends new-line character at end of the string so you end up with 2 new-line characters resulting in displaying 'blank' line. Use printf instead.

If would be easier to use fputs() instead - as that does not append a newline.

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