Well, finally found an explanation and a solution: calling fgets()
twice. Because if there's no length limit supplied (and it's not EOF)
when calling the function, it continues reading until it finds the
first newline character. So calling fgets() again will ensure that it
will read from the _begin
On 30 May 2008 02:56, Usamah M. Ali advised:
> So you're confirming that fgets() doesn't necessarily read a whole
> line? This user note existed on the manual's page of fgets() since
> 2004 and nobody deleted it or commented about:
>
> rstefanowski at wi dot ps dot pl
> 12-Aug-2004 09:03
>
> "Ta
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 4:21 AM, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> I just need to figure out why when using fgets() with fseek() &
>> rand(), the script returns partial strings form the city names.
>
> Because fseek doesn't necessarily put you at the start of a line.
>
> It puts you anywhere
> I just need to figure out why when using fgets() with fseek() &
> rand(), the script returns partial strings form the city names.
Because fseek doesn't necessarily put you at the start of a line.
It puts you anywhere (which could be the start, middle, 3 chars from the
end) according to the nu
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 3:38 AM, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> fseek doesn't go to the start of a line, it goes to a particular byte -
> so that's where the problem lies (not with fgets). There's no function
> (that I could see) which would go to the start of the line based on that
> offset (I
Usamah M. Ali wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a function that picks up a random entry from a file consisting
> of city names, each name on a separate line. The random value is
> generated by rand() before fseek()ing to the position determined by
> it. The problem is that when using fgets() to get a ran
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