white space and fscanf

Is it possible to get 'fscanf' to read past or ignore whitespace characters???

I need to get a file into an array, but I only get the first few characters up to whitespace. This is what I have so far.

<code>

main()
{
char buffer[200] ;
FILE *infile ;
FILE *outfile ;

infile = fopen( "input.txt", "r" ) ;
outfile= fopen( "output.txt","w" ) ;

fscanf( infile, "%s", buffer ) ;
fprintf( outfile, "%s", buffer ) ;

fclose(infile);
fclose(outfile);

}

</code>

As you can see, I have not implemented the array aspect yet, because my 'output.txt' file only gives me characters up to the first whitespace, instead of the complete file.

Thanks

Try using fgets(s,n,file) instead of fscanf(). This will read in a maximum n-1 characters into array s or up to a newline. Use a loop to read multiple lines. fgets() returns NULL when end of file (or error) occurs, so you could use that to terminate your loop.
Something like:

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>

#define BUFFER_SIZE 200

int main(void)
{
  char buffer[BUFFER_SIZE] ;
  FILE *infile ;
  FILE *outfile ;

  infile = fopen( "input.txt", "r" ) ;
  outfile= fopen( "output.txt","w" ) ;

  while (fgets( buffer, BUFFER_SIZE, infile ) != NULL)
    fprintf( outfile, "%s", buffer ) ;

  fclose(infile);
  fclose(outfile);

  return 0
}

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Have a look at the programming FAQ page of this site for more info.
Also note that main() should return int.

Thanks, DAvT.

I will give this a try after looking at the FAQ...

Peace