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Top Forums Programming help with opening files and reading them in C Post 302495590 by omega666 on Thursday 10th of February 2011 04:40:01 PM
Old 02-10-2011
i'm am trying to read a unix word list file, using this code
Code:
int u=1;
char line[11];
    int length;
FILE *fr;
fr = fopen ("/usr/share/dict/words", "r");
while (fgets(line, 11, fr) != NULL) {
 length = str_len(&line);
 printf(line);
 printf("\n%d %d\n",length,u);
u++;
}

and for some reason i get stuff like empty strings
this is part of the output:


2 134536
hemoscope
9 134537

0 134538
hemoscopy
9 134539

0 134540
hemosider
9 134541
in
2 134542


why is this happenning?
 

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french

WORDS(5)						     Linux Programmers Manual							  WORDS(5)

NAME

       french - a list of french words

DESCRIPTION

       /usr/share/dict/french is an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic list of words, one per line.

FILES

       /etc/alternatives/dictionary  is  a  symbolic  link  to	a  /usr/share/dict/<language>  file.   /usr/share/dict/words is a symbolic link to
       /etc/alternatives/dictionary, and is the name by which other software should refer to the system word list.  See update-alternatives(8) for
       more information.

       The directory /usr/share/dict can contain word lists for many languages, with name of the language in English, e.g., /usr/share/dict/ameri-
       can-english and /usr/share/dict/danish contain respectively lists of English and Danish words if they exist.  Such lists  should  be  coded
       using the ISO 8859-1 character set encoding.

SEE ALSO

       ispell(1), update-alternatives(8), and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.

HISTORY

       The words lists are not specific, and may be generated from any number of sources.

AUTHOR

       Word lists are collected and maintained by various authors.

Linux								   29 Sept 1998 							  WORDS(5)
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