Thread: reading into array

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    reading into array

    hi, i posted yesterday asking about reading words from a file into an array. Someone (thank you whoever you are!) suggested the following code:

    Code:
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <ctype.h>
    
    int main (void)
    {
       static const char filename[] = "file.txt";
       FILE *file = fopen(filename, "r");
       if ( file != NULL )
       {
          int ch, word = 0;
          while ( (ch = fgetc(file)) != EOF )
          {
             if ( isspace(ch) || ispunct(ch) )
             {
                if ( word )
                {
                   word = 0;
                   putchar('\n');
                }
             }
             else
             {
                word = 1;
                putchar(ch);
             }
          }
          fclose(file);
       }
       return 0;
    }
    This sends the words to standard output but i want to store each word in an array in a linked list, how would i do this. Also, would it be better to use fscanf - if so what would the code look like?

    thanks a lot

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    So replace the putchar calls with code to build a string character by character. Show some attempt, please.
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