Reading words from file

[bemo55]

Hello. I was wondering how to read strings from a file word by word and store the words into an array in c. I am having to write a program that tests words to see of they are palindromes from a little paragraph i wrote in a file. I've been trying to figure it out all afternoon with no luck.:(

[death_oclock]

fgets and strtok would be good places to start. Do you know how many strings you will be reading? If you don't it will make the array part a little more difficult.

[jen140]

Here you have a small example :

#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
   FILE *fp;

   fp = fopen("test.txt", "w");
   fscanf(fp, "%s", buffer);
   printf("Read Buffer: %s\n", %buffer );
   flcose(fp;);

}

To better understand fscanf try viewing : http://irc.essex.ac.uk/www.iota-six.co.uk/c/i4_fwrite_fscanf_fprintf.asp

[death_oclock]

I hate to sound like a prick but... using fscanf is generally a bad idea. There are plenty of reasons, but a big one is that most people don't really understand what its doing. Therefore it usually only works with carefully formatted input. Or by accident.

[bemo55]

I have looked at strtok but I didnt think that it would work with data i am reading in. All the examples i seen were declaring the array as a certain string like
char array1=" your string here"
and then using strtok. I didn't really understand how to use strtok.

[bemo55]

p.s. My file has 63 strings.

[bemo55]

Nevermind. I got the tokenizing function to work:)..Now ive just got to implement my palindrone function. Thanks for the help guys.