Thread: 2 Words

If there was a list in which there were 2 words in each line. I need to print only the frist word.

In some cases, there is one or more spaces in front of the first word. What method would I have to use if I wanted to skip the space in front of the word and take only the first word?

Please advise.

start counting from begining and detect the first letter you hit then count until you hit the second space . then find out the word.

try this function

Code:

int GetFirstWord(char *line, char* firstword)
{
int i = 0, j =0;
while(line[i] <= ' '  ) /*Left trim*/
i++;

/*copy first characters > space (if you want only the letters type (line[i] > 'a'*/
while(line[i] > ' '  ) 
firstword[j++] = line[i++];

firstword[j] = '\0'; 
return j;
}

Thanks vangmor. Actually I just needed a start and not the whole code. I was not supposed to use file functions as the others gave. I had to input the file using the UNIX operator '<'

So thanks again.