How do I process a text file in C by chunks of lines?

Question

I\'m writing a program in C that processes a text file and keeps track of each unique word (by using a struct that has a char array for the word and a count for its number of oc

Answer 1

How about getline() ? Here an example from the manpage http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/getline.3.html

   #define _GNU_SOURCE
   #include 
   #include 

   int
   main(void)
   {
       FILE *stream;
       char *line = NULL;
       size_t len = 0;
       ssize_t read;

       stream = fopen("/etc/motd", "r");
       if (stream == NULL)
           exit(EXIT_FAILURE);

       while ((read = getline(&line, &len, stream)) != -1) {
           printf("Retrieved line of length %zu :\n", read);
           printf("%s", line);
       }

       free(line);
       fclose(stream);
       exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
   }