Thread: Read and display data from files

Hi, im stuck with this part of the program where I have to read all the data from a file (structure by structure) and display it in the list. The way I approched this is by first finding the total number of structures in the file, then looping through all of them with a FOR loop, reading the values of each structure with an fread function and finally, displaying the values one by one in a list... Here's what i currently have:

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

typedef struct {
	char name[50];
//	float price;
//	int stock;
}product;
void get_product_from_database(FILE*, product*);
int total_products(FILE*);

int main() {
	product p;
	FILE *file_sales;
	int totalproducts;

	file_sales = fopen("./sales.txt", "rb+");

	totalproducts = total_products(file_sales);
	printf("*****************************************\n");
	printf("*      PRODUCTS CURRENTLY IN STOCK      *\n");
	for (int i = 0; i < totalproducts; i++)
	{
		get_product_from_database(file_sales, &p);
		printf("* %d. %s                                *\n", (i + 1), p.name);
	}
}

int total_products(FILE *file_sales) {
	int file_size;
	fseek(file_sales, 0, SEEK_END);
	file_size = ftell(file_sales);
	return file_size / sizeof(product);
}
void get_product_from_database(FILE *file_sales, product *p) {
	fread(p, sizeof(product), 1, file_sales);
}

I only want to display the name of the product. I get a list, but it doesnt display the names, just some weird chars... What am I doing wrong here?

Easy to miss -_-
And people don't catch these errors which are so easy to catch with a debugger...

Ok, thank you... I got it working...