Thread: read from .txt file & put into array?

oops! I sent this to c# accidently, am I guilty of multiple posts with my first post?

read from .txt file & put into array?
Could someone give me a clue how to read a list of names (one per line )from a text file into an array (2d?) for use in a function.
I can open and close the file Ok. The file was written to with fprintf and I am trying to read from it with fscanf (using &) but my program keeps crashing. Heres a bit of it below

//function( ) simply prints the correct answer
{
FILE *f;
char s[30][100]; //crashing badly
int i;
f = fopen(datafile,"r"); //../correct_answers.txt
for(i=0;i!=EOF;i++) //strcpy????
s[i] = fscanf(f,"\n%s",&s) ;

switch (theQuestion)
{
case 1:

printf("\n%s",s[0]);//doesn't work

printf("rrrrr"); //this works but I need
//the answer from the file in here

break;
case 2:

printf("\n%s",s[1]);
break;

The .txt file is as follows:-
Wilfred Owen
Jane Austen
Patrick White



The program is a CGI program and when invoked from the form
crashes. It works ok if I use string constants in the case statements but I cant get my answers from the text file into the case statements. I'm new to this, lost , lonely and confused.
Any clues to point me in the right direction would be much appreciated.
Thank you.

prelude ,your code works!!

I stuck an else onto it and put the switch into the body of the loop and it works. Not quite perfect yet since it prints the correct answer three times, four times, five times but I can work on this.
Thank you for your time *100

oops again!
I took the switch out of the loop and this works perfectly.
Not entirely sure why it needs the empty curly braces after the for loop but it won't work without them.
Thanks again.

///// ok now
void cor_ans(int Question)
{
FILE *f;
char s[30][100];
int i;
if ( ( f = fopen ( datafile, "r" ) ) == NULL )
{
printf ("File open falure" );
exit ( EXIT_FAILURE );
}
else
for ( i = 0; fgets ( s[i], sizeof s[i], f ) != NULL; i++ ) {

}


switch (theQuestion)
{
case 1:

printf("%s",s[0]);

break;
case 2:

printf("%s",s[1]);
break;
case 3:
printf("%s",s[2]);
break;

for ( i = 0; fgets ( s[i], sizeof s[i], f ) != NULL; i++ ) {

}

You can change this to:

Code:

 for ( i = 0; fgets ( s[i], sizeof s[i], f ) != NULL; i++ ) 
    ;

You don't need nothing in the loop, because all your work is done there, you catch the text and check if you aren't in the end of the file.

Originally posted by Vber
You can change this to:

Code:

 for ( i = 0; fgets ( s[i], sizeof s[i], f ) != NULL; i++ ) 
    ;

Even better:

Code:

nof_elems = sizeof s / sizeof s[0];
for ( i = 0; ( fgets ( s[i], sizeof s[i], f ) != NULL ) && ( i < nof_elems ) ; i++ )