Reading a file into an array of pointers

Does anyone know why when I print out "array[2]" nothing prints? It just prints blank space. My file definitely has text in it, but when I try to assign "text" into the array of pointers it won't show any text. I know fgets() appends a newline at the end of the string, not sure if that has anything to do with it, but I've tried printing everything that should be in "array" with a for loop and I get nothing.

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>
#define FILEPATH "/home/user/Desktop/text"


int main(){
  FILE *myFile = fopen(FILEPATH, "r");
  if(myFile == NULL) return 0;
 
  char text[100];
  char *array[100];
  int idx = 0;


  while(fgets(text, 100, myFile)){
      array[idx++] = text;
  }
 
  puts(array[2]);


}

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Code:

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array[idx++] = text;

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You are assigning your pointers to the same address.

So its not that you will get nothing.

They will all point to the last line entered from your file.

If that is a blank line there will appear to be nothing at all.

You need to allocate (and eventually free) memory for each pointer in "array" before assigning a string to it. And in 'C', you cannot copy strings with the assignment operator. You need to use "strcpy()".