Reading one line at a time in C

Question

Which method can be used to read one line at a time from a file in C?

I am using the fgets function, but it\'s not working. It\'s reading the space

Answer 1

This should work, when you can't use fgets() for some reason.

int readline(FILE *f, char *buffer, size_t len)
{
   char c; 
   int i;

   memset(buffer, 0, len);

   for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
   {   
      int c = fgetc(f); 

      if (!feof(f)) 
      {   
         if (c == '\r')
            buffer[i] = 0;
         else if (c == '\n')
         {   
            buffer[i] = 0;

            return i+1;
         }   
         else
            buffer[i] = c; 
      }   
      else
      {   
         //fprintf(stderr, "read_line(): recv returned %d\n", c);
         return -1; 
      }   
   }   

   return -1; 
}

Answer 2

Use fgets to read from the line, and then use getc(...) to chew up the newline or end-of-line to continue reading....here's an example of forever reading a line...

// Reads 500 characters or 1 line, whichever is shorter
char c[500], chewup;
while (true){
    fgets(c, sizeof(c), pFile);
    if (!feof(pFile)){
        chewup = getc(pFile); // To chew up the newline terminator
        // Do something with C
    }else{
        break; // End of File reached...
    }
}

Answer 3

You can use fscanf instead of fgets. Because fgets fscanf for characters including spaces but while using fscanf you can separately access to data saved in a file.eg there be a file having name class roll.now declare a string and two integers line.

Answer 4

Use the following program for getting the line by line from a file.

#include <stdio.h>
int main ( void )
{
  char filename[] = "file.txt";
  FILE *file = fopen ( filename, "r" );

  if (file != NULL) {
    char line [1000];
    while(fgets(line,sizeof line,file)!= NULL) /* read a line from a file */ {
      fprintf(stdout,"%s",line); //print the file contents on stdout.
    }

    fclose(file);
  }
  else {
    perror(filename); //print the error message on stderr.
  }

  return 0;
}

Answer 5

This is more of a comment than a complete answer, but I don't have enough points to comment. :)

Here's the function prototype for fgets():

char *fgets(char *restrict s, int n, FILE *restrict stream);

It will read n-1 bytes or up to a newline or eof. For more info see here

Answer 6

fgets() should be the way to go …