Thread: Reading Line From a .txt File Problems

Hey I'm trying to read the first line from a .txt file and print it to the terminal with the bellow code.

Code:

char pass[40];
FILE *login = fopen("test.txt", "r");
fgets(pass, 40, login);
printf("%s\n", pass);

I set the char size to 40 because that was the maximum size allowed when I printed to line to the file. The problem I'm having is there seems to be a bunch of blank space and a new line at the end of the string. I tried to remove it with the bellow for loop but when I do I get a bunch of junk at the end that shows up a "?" characters in my terminal. I have tried checking for new lines and not "0" in the for loop but I still get junk left at the end of the string showing as "?".

Code:

char passhold[40];
for(int i = 0; pass[i] != 0; i++){
    passhold[i] = pass[i];
  }
  printf("%s\n", passhold);

I cant work out how to fix it. I just want to read the first line and not have blank space at the end of the string.

fgets will store the newline from the input at the end of the string if there is space for it, so that is to be expected and easily removed by a variety of ways, e.g.,

Code:

pass[strcspn(pass, "\r\n")] = '\0';

But, are you trying to remove other whitespace at the end of the string? As in, is the whitespace expected or unexpected?