Help required in File Handling

[co123ol]

Hi I am a beginner in C. I am working on a program that asks to search words from one file whether they exist in other or not. Here is the code.

The problem seems to be that when the first word is extracted from one file and searched and compared through the whole other file ,the next time outer loop starts the inner loop exits because dt_val is still seems be be EOF . After the loop I do assign it to 0 but it does'nt help the search of the complete first file in other.

Please help

 int main(void)
{
 
	FILE* tx;
	FILE* dt;
	int dt_val=0;
	int tx_val=0;
	int c=0;
	char buff_tx[20];
	char buff_dt[20];
                tx= fopen("C:\\newdt1.txt","r");
	dt= fopen("C:\\newdt.txt","r");
	if((tx==NULL)&&(dt==NULL))
		printf("Both Failed\n");
	else
	{
	    while(tx_val!=EOF)
	    {
                       tx_val=fscanf(tx,"%s",buff_tx);
	       while(dt_val!= EOF)
	       {
		      dt_val=fscanf(dt,"%s",buff_dt);
		      if(strcmp(buff_dt,buff_tx)==0)
			    c++;
                       }
                      dt_val=0
                      if(c==0)
		  printf("It does not exists\n");
		   else
			  printf("Does\n");
		   c=0;
	   }
	}

	    fclose(tx);
	    fclose(dt);

        return 0;
}

[mike_g]

You could fix this by making a copies of each file pointer. Then use the copies to scan the files. When you reach EOF the set the copies back to their original position at the start of the file.

[tabstop]

Making a copy of the file pointer won't help (that just means that they both access the same file, but what happens to the file itself will be reflected in both pointers). If you need to re-read a file, try rewind().

[mike_g]

Oh I guess I got that confused with strings then. rewind() should do it fine then, or you could load the content to ram.