comparing strings.

[goran00]

I am making a program that will check a documents nd print the number of times that it had the word 'pets'.
The program runs ok, but it prints: I got the word: <null>.
The code is included please let me know what I am doing wrong.
Thank you

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stddef.h>
#include <string.h>

int main (){
	char c;
	char inputText[500];
	int countSame=0;

	

	FILE* inputFile;


	inputFile=fopen("C:\\Documents and Settings\\User\\My Documents\\GPA.txt","r");

	if (inputFile==NULL){
		printf("Failed to open");
		exit(-1);
	}

	while ((c=scanf(inputFile))!=EOF){
	fscanf(inputFile,"%s",inputText);
	printf("I got the word: %s\n",c);
	}
	

		if( strcmp(inputText, "pets" ) == 0 ) {
			countSame++;
		}
	

	printf("There are %i matches for pets\n", countSame);
	system("Pause");


}

[Elysia]

	while ((c=scanf(inputFile))!=EOF){
	fscanf(inputFile,"%s",inputText);
	printf("I got the word: %s\n",c);
	}

You read into inputText, you output c. Bad.
Also see http://cpwiki.sourceforge.net/Talk:Buffer_overrun
You are reading from the file in an unsafe way.
Indentation may require a little work, as well.

[goran00]

what should I have it output instead of c. strg?

[Elysia]

You're lying to printf. You're telling it you want to print a string, yet you pass along a character. And what's worse is that you are passing its value and not the address.
To print characters, use &#37;c. Otherwise pass a string (char array).
Also see http://cpwiki.sourceforge.net/A_pointer_on_pointers