Thread: text file

Hi,
I am writing a program that asks the user to input a file name and the program then reads what is in the file and sends that information to another function. I am a little confused on how to begin. I know the file will contain a string followed by two numbers, but I don't know how many strings there will be.
Like I said I really don't know how to start. Any suggustions would be great.

thanks

start here

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
   // your code goes here

  return 0;
}

you will need a character array of about 255 characers (to hold the longest possible filename) then call fgets() to get the file name from the keyboard. After that, call fopen() to open the file, fgets() to read each line, and finally fclose() to close the file.

Code:

display prompt to enter filename
get filename from keyboard (use fgets() function)
open the file
start of loop
   call fgets() to read one line from the file
   if fgets() returns NULL then exit the loop
   call some other function with line as parameter
end of loop
close file