Reading in a strand of text.

[*EVIL_DOUGAL*]

I am currently writing a program to read lines from a .txt file into my C program. So far I can get the program to read the first line but no other ones. Can someone please tell me the command to read more lines as I've searched the internet and i can find anything to help.

This is my program so far...

#include<stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

void	READFILE__B();

char	StringStore[50], Line[100];

void main(void)
{
	clrscr();
	printf("Enter you Name and College Number:\n\n");
	scanf("%s",StringStore);
	printf("\n");
	getch();
	READFILE__B();
}
//***************************************************
void READFILE__B()
{
	FILE *Data;

	Data = fopen("D:\\EXAMC.TXT","r");
	fgets(Line, 100, Data);
	printf("%s", Line);
	getch();
}
//***************************************************

The part where I'm having trouble is the line that says

printf("%s", Line);

It will read only 1 and i need to read about 4.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Dean

[twomers]

>> fgets(Line, 100, Data);

Put that in a loop methinks.

[quzah]

1 - Having empty parameters means potentially different things. If you want a function to be described as taking no arguments, make the argument list void
2 - main returns an integer, not void.
3 - You can avoid using global variables, and generally should.
4 - You are reopening the file every time you call the function.
5 - You read the first line every time you reopen it.
6 - You never close the function.

In short, you need a loop. All you ever do is read one line. You can just pass the opened file pointer to your read function, and read a line. Then just call your read function over and over. There are many ways to do this.


Quzah.

[*EVIL_DOUGAL*]

Thanks for your help, I'll try it when i can and post whether it worked or not.

Cheers,

Dean