How you get data from a file and put it in a variable?

[Budgiekarl]

Heres the code:

FILE * fileP;

main()
{
    fileP = fopen("C:\\textad\\stats.dat", "r+")
    ...
    fseek(fileP, 0, SEEK_SET);    
    char name[36] = ???;

The first line of 'stats.dat' has a name, I want that name in 'char name', how do I do that?

[Brighteyes]

fgets(name, sizeof (name), fileP);

Though it looks like you're compiling as C++ since C doesn't support variable declarations except at the top of a block of code.

[Budgiekarl]

I got this error:

Line 7, *:\***l\Dev-Cpp\***\main.c, invalid initializer :\

[Brighteyes]

Then you are compiling as C, it's not legal code so you're sure to get a diagnostic when you try and compile. Try this instead:

FILE * fileP;

main()
{
    char name[36];
    fileP = fopen("C:\\textad\\stats.dat", "r+")
    ...
    fseek(fileP, 0, SEEK_SET);    
    fgets(name, sizeof (name), fileP);