C program to display only the first ten lines of text file.
I'm trying to write a program that reads a text file and displays the first ten lines. The way I'm trying to do this is with a loop that reads a character at a time from a file and within that loop I'd like it to keep track of the number of times the input character is '\n' and increment a variable that counts the lines and when the line count reaches 10, it closes the file and exits the loop. I'm not exactly sure how to do that. I'd like some example to get an idea what to do.
Start with a program which prints the whole file.
Then add to that, something which counts and prints the number of newlines seen.
Then finally, something to exit the loop when that counter reaches 10.
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