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From: cfiddyme@gara.une.oz.au (Kith Kanan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Arrays.
Message-ID: <6466@gara.une.oz.au>
Date: 21 May 91 09:52:41 GMT
Organization: University of New England, Armidale, Australia
Lines: 43


 hi,
     I'm new to C and have been trying out a few things and have come up with
 a problem. In the code below I am reading a series of three digit numbers
 from a file and storing them as strings in a 2-d array.When I print them out
 strange things happen. Can someone please tell me what is causing this and how
 do I prevent it. Also when I replace the fscanf function with fgets() i get
 errors. Why?
                                 Thanks
                                            Chris.

#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
   char array[10][3];
   char s[3];
   FILE *input,*fopen();
   int i = 0;

   input = fopen("inarray","r");
   while(!feof(input))  {
      fscanf(input,"%s\n",s);
      strcpy((char *) array[i],s);
      i++;
    }
   for(i=0;i<=9;i++)
     fprintf(stdout,"%s\n",array[i]);
}

 This is the output of the program.The input file is just the first three
 digit's of each line.

229657659312999867555664811109
657659312999867555664811109
659312999867555664811109
312999867555664811109
999867555664811109
867555664811109
555664811109
664811109
811109
109