How to read a line of text in C

Open a text file e.g a CSV, read it line by line using a char array (string), print the contents and close it to avoid any memory leak.

In this article, I will show you how to read a text file line by line in C using the standard C function fgets and the POSIX getline function.

To read a line from a file, you should use the fgets function: It reads a string from the specified file up to either a newline character or EOF.

I wrote this function to read a line from a file: const char *readLine(FILE *file) { if (file == NULL) { printf(Error: file pointer is null.); exit(1); }

In C, the fgets() function is a standard way to read a file line by line. It reads a string from the specified file until a newline character is encountered.

First, open the text file using the fopen() function. Second, use the fgets() or fgetc() function to read text from the file. Third, close the file using the ...

No, scanf is not typically used to read a file line by line in C. scanf is used to read formatted input from the standard input stream (usually the keyboard).

To read from a file, you can use the r mode. Example: FILE *fptr; // Open a file in read mode fptr = fopen(filename.txt, r); This will make the filename. ...

Example of how to read a specific line from a file using C. Source code: ...

In today's video you will learn how to read a text file in C Programming language. I will use fopen and fgets functions to read strings from ...