creating variables on the fly?

Here is the situation. I need to load a list of text into a listbox. I have a text file that has the list in this format:

item1
item2
item3

I than open this text file and load everything into a character array. Now I need to put these items into a listbox. However when I do that, it puts all items as if it were one, so the list box has one line that goes:

item1item2item3

I need to somehow create different character arrays on the fly so that I can store one item in each array so that when I go to add them to the list box, it adds them seperatly. I'm using LB_ADDSTRING

Hope that makes some sense.

Thanks.

Do you really need to allocate variables for each? I don't know how to use the listbox but I would think you would do somthing like this:

Code:

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char buffer[100];

while (fgets(buffer,sizeof(buffer),fp) != NULL);
    add_to_list_box(buffer);

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Cya

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Originally Posted by kzar

Do you really need to allocate variables for each? I don't know how to use the listbox but I would think you would do somthing like this:

Code:

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char buffer[100];

while (fgets(buffer,sizeof(buffer),fp) != NULL);
    add_to_list_box(buffer);

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Cya

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Oye! It works, I didn't know about fgets, reads things one line at a time. Learn something new every day.

Thanks!