Thread: Menu Program

I have been struggling with this for days. I am to create a program to show a menu of facts, and the user is to put in which fact that they would like to learn about. I have a general idea of how I would like to look. Where I am stuck at is, getting the function to read a file using fgets and print to the screen. This is what I have so far. I just need help getting the textInit function to print to the screen. (Note a lot of this code is trash because i've been changing a lot of things around)proe.c

Code:

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

#define NUM_ROWS 22
#define LENGTH_OF_LONGEST_LINE 455
void textInit(char readIn[][LENGTH_OF_LONGEST_LINE]);  //prototype for textInit function
int displayMenu(char showIn[][LENGTH_OF_LONGEST_LINE]); //prototype for displayMenu function
void inputText(char selectIn[NUM_ROWS][LENGTH_OF_LONGEST_LINE],int choice); // prototype for inputTExt function

int main (void)
{
//int i;
char arraypat[NUM_ROWS][LENGTH_OF_LONGEST_LINE];
char patfact,patfact1;	
	textInit(arraypat);		
	patfact1=displayMenu(arraypat);
	 
return 0;
}
void textInit(char readIn[][LENGTH_OF_LONGEST_LINE])//function that will put the input.txt into the array
{ 
int readIn_1;_
	//scanf("%s", &arraypat[NUM_ROWS][LENGTH_OF_LONGEST_LINE]);
	fgets(readIn,LENGTH_OF_LONGEST_LINE,stdin);
	readIn_1 = strlen(readIn);
	//scanf("%s", arraypat[i]);
 	freopen("/dev/tty","rw",stdin);
	//displayMenu(arraypat);
}

int displayMenu(char showIn[][LENGTH_OF_LONGEST_LINE])
{

int i,j,menuChoice;
char read[NUM_ROWS][LENGTH_OF_LONGEST_LINE];
	textInit(readIn);
	printf("Which of the following St. Pat's Facts do you wish to view?");
	for(j=1;j<=11; j++)
	{
		for(i=1; i<=NUM_ROWS; i+=2)
		{
			
			printf("%c",readIn[j][i]);
		}
	{
	scanf("%d", &menuChoice);
	if( 1 > menuChoice || menuChoice > 11)
	{
		printf("Please enter a number between 1 and 11");
	}
	//	return menuChoice;
	return 0;
}

If you're trying to read from a file, the first thing you need at some point is

FILE *fp = fopen("input.txt","r");
// check fp != NULL

Followed by
while ( fgets( buff, sizeof(buff), fp ) != NULL )
// do something with each line


> for(j=1;j<=11; j++)
1. Arrays being at subscript 0, not 1
2. Use %s to print a whole line, rather than %c to print each character separately.