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[newguy]

Hi
I need to know how to read ASCII data in words to search for a string of 5 letter words in a text file. Anyone knw how to do it? I'm going in circles here . Here's a portion of my code

FILE *fp ;
SIZE = 5;

str = (char *) malloc(sizeof(char)*SIZE);
strstart = str ;
temp = (char *) malloc(sizeof(char)*5);


if((fp = fopen("word.txt","rb")) == NULL)
printf("file cannot be opened\n");

[quzah]

You'd be better off reading a line at a time into a buffer and then scanning it for the word you want.

fgets()
sscanf()
strstr()

Quzah.