Counting records in a file

If I have a data file that is structured like this:

word1 word2
word3 word4
word5 word6

I am using fscanf to read the words into an array of strings. How can I count the number of lines in the file? What I want is the number of word pairs in the file, not the number of words.

1) Count the number of words and divide by two.
2) Count he number of newline characters in the file.

Take your pick.

Quzah.

I guess my problem then is getting fscanf to detect the end of the file.

>I guess my problem then is getting fscanf to detect the end of the file.
Something along these lines would work:

Code:

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while (fscanf(file, "%10s %10s", array[a], array[b]) == 2) {
    /* Blah blah blah */
}

if (ferror(file)) {
    /* Whoops, error instead of EOF */
}

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