How do I make a C program read a string from a text file?

[plucky dove]

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[gusty cedar]

@tight cove What have you tried so far

[tight cove]

I’m new to C, so I don’t know where to start

[gusty cedar]

Google is a good place to start https://www.tutorialspoint.com/cprogramming/c_file_io.htm, https://www.programiz.com/c-programming/c-file-input-output, ...

[tight cove]

I tried this, but I'm getting errors saying that str is the wrong variable type

[gusty cedar]

Do you know what type char *str[100] is?

[tight cove]

An array?

[gusty cedar]

An array of what?

[tight cove]

characters

[gusty cedar]

Not quite

It's an array of 100 char*'s

I.e., a pointer to a character / character array

[tight cove]

Is there a way to get fopen to read it?

[gusty cedar]

You can't guess with types in C

You need to be precise

Both scanf and fopen take a string

str is not a string

[tight cove]

How do I make a string?

[gusty cedar]

A string is an array of characters

[tight cove]

So would I do char str[100] instead of char *str[100]?

[gusty cedar]

Perfect

[tight cove]

Thank you

This is way more complicated than Python

[gusty cedar]

Yes

You'll get the hang of it though

[tight cove]

I'm still getting an error for str's type

[gusty cedar]

What is str now?

[plucky dove]

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