Help reading file and adding html tags

I'm still pretty new to C, so please bear with me...
I am trying to read a file, parse it's contents and add html tags around each word. For example:

Code:

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Text file contents...
This is a test
This is the next line

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C program to convert to...

Code:

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<tr>
  <td>This</td> <td>is</td> <td>a</td> <td>test</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>This</td> <td>is</td> <td>the</td> <td>next</td> <td>line</td>
</tr>

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I am a perl guy and I am writing a database application in C - mainly to learn the language. What I'm not sure of is what file io functions I should be using or which would be most efficient. Maybe I should be using some kind of pattern matching here like you would see in perl?
Here is my actual code - nothing new here, just file io...

Code:

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  while ( fscanf( fp, "%s", readline ) != EOF ){
    if(match(readline,"\r")){  // silly attempt at regex
      fprintf(cgiOut,"%s",readline);
    }
  }

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I can't seem to find the carriage return using this method. Here is the "match" function that I found on the web - doesn't seem to function as the $var =~ // in perl.

Code:

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int match(char *string, char *pattern){
  int status;
  regex_t re;
  if (regcomp(&re, pattern, REG_EXTENDED|REG_NOSUB) != 0)  {
    return(0) ;
  }
  status = regexec(&re, string, (size_t) 0, NULL, 0);
  regfree(&re);
  if (status != 0)  {
    return(0) ;
  }
  return(1);
}

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Please help, I'm pulling my hair out. If you're in the Dallas area, I'll buy you a beer!

Thanks,
Derek

The best way to read in one line at a time would probably be to use fgets(). Then you can use a function like strtok() to break that line into individual words. At that point you could just print each word with the surrounding HTML tags. You can use strchr() to see if the word contains a newline character.

Thanks - that worked great. I guess I owe you a beer!!!

I'm not in the Dallas area ;)