Function fread not terminating string by \0

Question

New to files in C, trying to read a file via fread

Here\'s the content of the file:

line1 how

Code used:

char c[6];         


        

Answer 1

The man page for fread says nothing about adding a terminating zero at the end of the file.

If you want to be safe, initialize all the bytes in your c array to be zero (via bzero or something like that) and when you read in, you'll then have a terminating null.

I've linked the two man pages for fread and bzero and I hope that helps you out.