How to read line by line after i read a text into a buffer?

Question

First , I read a text into a buffer by calling fread, and then I want to read it line by line, how to do it? I try to use a sscanf , but it seems not to work.

char textbuf[4096];
char line[256];
FILE *fp;
fp = fopen(argv[1],"r");
memset(textbuf, 0, 4096);
fread(textbuf, 1, 4096, fp);

I know using fgets is a good way. I just want to know weather this method can do the same thing.

Answer 1

Try this:

fgets(textbuf, sizeof(textbuf), fp);

For read line by line you can use: fgets(line, 128, fp) or getline(&line, &size, fp);

EDIT

If you want to read it from a variable, look at strtok() function:

char * line = strtok(strdup(buffer), "\n");
while(line) {
   printf("%s", line);
   line  = strtok(NULL, "\n");
}

Answer 2

You can find the location of the end-of-line character using strchr() like this:

char *eol = strchr(line, '\n');

Everything before *eol is the first line. Then advance from line to eol + 1, remove any subsequent \r or \n characters, and repeat the process until strchr() returns NULL to indicate there are no more newline characters. At that point, move any remaining data to the beginning of the buffer and read the next chunk from the file.

If you're concerned about efficiency you can avoid moving the data by using 2 buffers and alternating between them, but even the naive method is probably faster than fgets() if the file has many lines.

Answer 3

how about strtok

char *line;
line = strtok(texbuf, '\n');