Help with character array pointer and strcmp

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It gets words from a file, each word from each line and i want to find out if the word "and" is in the list... can someone help me?

  int z=0;
  char *word="and";
  while(fgets(c,sizeof(c),fq)!=NULL)
  {
    if(strcmp(c,word)==0)
    {
      printf("word found");
      z++;
    }

    printf("h%s\n",c);
    if(head==NULL){
        head=add(head,c);
        tail = head;
    }
    else{
      tail = add(tail,c);
    }
    printf("g%s listed: ",tail->word);
  }

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fgets() read's the newline, so c will contain,

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and\n

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so do something like:

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if(strncmp(c, word, strlen(word)) == 0)
{

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But that means if the line is:

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andy

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and you're searching for 'and' it'll match.

Consider removing the newline and staying with strcmp(), see the FAQ.

* c is a poor name for a variable (especially a character array)
* don't post your whole post in code tags.

Wow!! that worked...... thanks zacs7