Question

Here is an extract for some code that I am working on. Just wondering how would I go about resetting the nested loop? It remains at the end of the file when the first loop runs again.

while(fscanf(fp2,"%s", wordcheck)!=EOF)//Reads word from text file into array//
    {

        for (i=0; wordcheck[i]; i++)
        {
            wordcheck[i] = tolower(wordcheck[i]);//makes all characters lower case//
        }

        printf("%s", wordcheck);

        while(fscanf(fp1,"%s", worddict))
        {   
            if(strcmp(wordcheck, worddict)==0)//compare strings//
            {
            printf("This word: %s is in the dictionary\n", wordcheck);
            dictcount++;
            break;
            }

            else
            {
            dictcount++;
            }

            if(worddict == NULL)
            {
            printf("Your word: %s is not in the dictionary\n", wordcheck);
            }
        }
    }

Answer 1

Use fseek:

fseek(fp2, 0, SEEK_SET);

.. or more simply, rewind:

rewind(fp2);