Discarding blank lines?

Hey,

I'm writing a program that takes input from a file called index.txt. I want to be able to discard blank lines. This is what I have:

Code:

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      while (!feof(fp_fileNamesCheck))
          {
            char buf[256];
            fgets(buf, 255, fp_fileNamesCheck);
            if (strlen(buf) > 1)
              newNamesCount++;
          }

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This works when I have many blank lines in the document, but it doesn't catch trailing blank lines.

Ex, it catches

|File1
|File2
|
|
|

but doesn't catch

|File1
|File2
|

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Read the FAQ on why using feof() to control a loop is bad.

Use the return result of fgets() instead.

Better to just check if buf[0] == '\n'.
This is also C, not C++.

Thanks. I got it.