reading text from a file

Hi me again

ok so i got a program to read a line of text from a file using fgets()function.

So my next problem is 'how do i tell the program to move on to the next line of text in the file' so that it can be read ?

Thanx for the help .

fgets() atumatically reads the next line
use something like

Code:

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while (fgets(..) != NULL) {
...
}

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>So my next problem is 'how do i tell the program to move on to the next line of text in the file' so that it can be read ?
Don't think in terms of 'lines', think of a file as a long string of characters. You read one character and automatically move ahead to the next one, it just so happens that one character means a line break ('\n').

Hi

Thanx for the reply , but what im actually looking to do is read 1 line of text , display it on the screen , press a key and then the next line of text will be displayed and so on until the EOF is reached.

mmm i wonder if im going about this the wrong way.

Something like this I suppose:

Code:

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int main(void)
{
    /* Open the file */

    while (fgets(line, sizeof (line), file))
    {
        fputs(line, stdout);

        printf("Continue? (y/n)");
        fflush(stdout);

        if (tolower(getchar()) != 'y')
            break;
    }

    return 0;
}

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Thanx a lot Brighteyes

you were a big help.