Thread: Strange characters in output to terminal

I have a text file with ManchesterUtd01Reading, I open it for reading, count the number of characters on the first line and use it in a loop, the loop will insert a single character in an array called team while the character is not a number. Then I try to print out what is in array team.

I only get gobble, like

Team 1 is: ܃����ȧ��I��g����(���u���0���(���u���

Is this because the characters are not going in to the array, so it is printing something random from memory? I am just printing to the terminal in Ubuntu and my text file is in Gedit.

Code:

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


int main()
{

	FILE *fp;
	
	char string[40];  /*This is to store the first line of the text file as a string */
	int length;       /* This is to store the length of the string above to use in a loop */

	char team1[20];
	char team2[20];
	char score[2];
	char c;   /* Store single character from file, used in a loop */
	
	fp = fopen("teamresults.txt", "r");

	fgets(string,40,fp);   /* Read up to 40 characters from text file and put in string array */
	length= strlen(string);  /* Count how many characters are in the text file up to 40 or new line or EOF */
	
	
	c = fgetc( fp ) ;   /* fgetc function gets a character from file specified by what fp points to and stores it in c */
	

	while (  c != EOF )/* while not at the end of the file, get a character from the file */
	{ 		
		
		
		int i;
		for (i=0;length;++i) {
			c = fgetc( fp ) ; 
				while ( c >64 && c <123) {   /* while character from text file is a non-number character */
					team1[i]=c;	
				}
			
		}
				

		
	}
	printf("Team 1 is: %s",team1);
	
	
	fclose (fp);
}

Ok I have some things to think about, thanks for the replies.

I've started using gdb to debug, I've never done it before and it's very interesting.