Question

I’m looking for a solution to a rather simple problem:

1. Have a text file with words\strings separated by ‘\n’ Each new string starts after ‘\n’
2. Need to get each one of those strings out of the file and create a separate entity out of it.

Answer 1

Yes, this task sounds pretty straightforward except for the vague idea of “creat[ing] a separate entity” out of a string (???).

Here is the general algorithm that I would use if I were to implement such a program:

#include <stdio.h>
#define LEN 0xFF
int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
  char line[LEN];
  FILE * input_file = NULL;
  if ((input_file=fopen("myinputfile.txt","r")) == NULL) {
    // Handle error when opening the file...
  }
  while (fgets(line, LEN, input_file) != NULL) {
    // Process each line of input...
  }
  fclose(input_file);
  return 0;
}