Thread: quick question: File Input

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    quick question: File Input

    Hi,

    Im a little new to the C language and could use some help.

    I understand that gets( ) can be used to read a line of input from stdin, as can sscanf etc

    and I understand that fscanf can be used to read input from files.

    what I would like to know is,

    is there any function in the C library that resembles gets() but can be applied to a file?

    essentially I am looking to read input from a file, one line at a time.
    The reason I don't want fscanf is because I dont know how many values I want to read in ie it varies.

    essentially, I have a variable :

    char buf[256] ;

    and in the way that this works:

    gets(buf) ;

    I would like something similar, except reading from file instead of stdin.

    Thanks in advance

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    never mind ppl.....


    i figured it out lol ....

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