From:	kezman AT bigfoot DOT com (Kieran Farrell)
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Subject:	Re: Reading from a file...
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On Sat, 22 May 1999 11:29:39 +0100, Unigni <unigni AT zaynar DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
wrote:

I bet 10 bucks your using fscanf, which will only read up untill a
space or newline. I have found the best way is to load character by
character by using getc, sounds a pain but once you've written the
function you can use it forever. I'll give you a hint on what I mean,
you want to read a whole line so here goes.

char *ReadLine( FILE *fp )
{
    int i = 0;
    char ch;
    char buf[MAX]
    
    do
    {
        /* Gets a char from file */
        ch = getc(fp);
        /* Add ch to buf */
        buf[i] = ch;
        /* Increment i */
        i++;
    }while( ch != '\n' && !feof(fp) );
    /* Need to add the null terminator */
    buf[i] = '\0';
    /* If you dont want the newline in your string */
    /* use this line instead */
    /* buf[--i] = '\0'; */
    return (buf);
}

Only look at that code as an algorithm and not code as I just typed it
out, I havent compiled it to test for errors.

>I've got a data file and can read words and numbers from it (each piece
>of data is on a separate line), and want to read a whole line of text --
>however, I can only get it to read up to the first space...
> Any help will be greatly appreciated!

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