? about breaking up a string into indivual chars

Stringz · 09-22-2001

Hi, I'm trying to break a line up into individual chars. This is what I tried but it doesn't work!:

File *fp;
char lines[100];

fgets(fp, lines, 100);

length = strlen(lines)

for(i=0; i<length-1; i++) // print each individual char
printf("%s\n", length[i]);

If the file I read contained:

abcd

When I print the contents of the char array line[], I thought
I would get:

line[1] = a
line[2] = b
line[3] = c
line[4] = d

But instead I get:
line[1] = abcd
line[2] = bcd
line[3] = cd
line[4] = d

I know in java I have used a 'charAt' function to do this. Does C have something similar in the string.h library? Thanks in advance for any help.

**Salem** · 09-22-2001

> printf("%s\n", length[i]);
Use "%c" to print individual chars

Stringz · 09-22-2001

Hi, thanks, but %c didn't work either. Anyother suggestions?

**zen** · 09-22-2001

I think the problem is somewhere else in your code, as this works -

Code:

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

int main()
{

	char lines[100]; 
	int length,i;

	fgets( lines, 100,stdin); 

	length = strlen(lines); 

	for(i=0; i<length-1; i++) // print each individual char 
			printf("%c\n", lines[i]); 

	return 0;
}

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