Question

I’m trying to read a list of strings from a file to an array.
in file it looks like this

ItemOne
ItemTwo
ItemThree etc.

I declared an array as:

char** array;

and file as:

FILE *read;

This is what I came up with:

{
    i = 0;
    printf("Type in the name of the file\n");
    scanf("%s", &name);

    read = fopen(name, "r");
    if (read == NULL)
    {
        perror("Doesn't work");
        return 1;
    }

    else
    {
        array = malloc(100 * sizeof(*array));
        while (!feof(read))
        {
            array[i] = malloc(32 * sizeof(*array[i]));
            fscanf(read, "%s", &array[i]);
            i++;

        }
    }
}

Tt compiles, but when I try to display the array it’s empty. Any ideas?

Answer 1

    while (!feof(read))
    {
        array[i] = malloc(32 * sizeof(*array[i]));
        fscanf(read, "%s", array[i]); //You should pass a pointer to a pointer to array of chars
        i++;
    }

I hope it’ll work…