Thread: Read single words seperated by white space in as strings

I am trying to read from a text file, and have each word become a new string. Is fgets a bad weapon of choice? It reads until a \n character, I guess I need to read until ' '?

Code:

LIST *CreateList(FILE *fp)
{
   char buf[BUFSIZE];

   fgets(buf, 256, fp);
   puts (buf);


} /* End CreateList */

Originally Posted by steals10304

I am trying to read from a text file, and have each word become a new string. Is fgets a bad weapon of choice? It reads until a \n character, I guess I need to read until ' '?

Code:

LIST *CreateList(FILE *fp)
{
   char buf[BUFSIZE];

   fgets(buf, 256, fp);
   puts (buf);


} /* End CreateList */

i think fgets automatically puts a null character at the end of the file.

what if you tried

Code:

#define BUFSIZE 256

char buf[BUFSIZE + 1];

fgets(buf, BUFSIZE + 1, fp);
   
puts (buf);

Sure, use fgets to get the whole file/line. It is safe:

From man-page
fgets() reads in at most one less than size characters from stream and stores them into the buffer pointed to by s. Reading stops after an EOF or
a newline. If a newline is read, it is stored into the buffer. A '\0' is stored after the last character in the buffer

then use strtok to get the words in separate strings.