Reading Text Files in C and Separating into Different Strings

I have a text file that I'm reading into my C program using while (fgets(line, line_size, sourcefp) != NULL).  A sample of the test file is below.  Basically, columns 1-7 is the label, 8-15 is the opcode, 16-27 is the operand, 28 is blank, and 29-66 is the comment (Note: The entire line is ignored if the first character is a period(.)).  By using the fgets statement above, I'm trying to take substrings out of the string line and assign them to separate string variables.  I do this using:

strncpy(label, line, 7);
label[7]='\0';
strncpy(mnemonicOpCode, line + 8, 7);
mnemonicOpCode[7]='\0';
strncpy(operand, line + 15, 13);
operand[13]='\0';
if ( strlen(line) > 28) {
     strcpy(comment,&line[28]);
     comment[30]='\0';
}

However, this isn't working for me.  The problem I have is that there may or may not be a comment.  If there is a comment, I can copy all of columns 16-27 into operand.  If there is no comment, I can only copy the columns I need into operand.  I cannot copy the newline character into any of these fields those.  Does anyone know a way to not only copy the fields into these string variables properly but also trim any whitespace character from them?  Any help on this is appreciated.  I don't necessarily have to use fgets either if someone knows a better way.  Thanks in advance!



COPY    START   0           COPY FILE FROM INPUT TO OUTPUT
FIRST   STL     RETADR      SAVE RETURN ADDRESS
        LDB    #LENGTH      ESTABLISH BASE REGISTER
        BASE    LENGTH
CLOOP  +JSUB    RDREC        READ INPUT RECORD
        LDA     LENGTH      TEST FOR EOF (LENGTH = 0)
        COMP   #0
        JEQ     ENDFIL      EXIT IF EOF FOUND
       +JSUB    WRREC       WRITE OUTPUT RECORD
        J       CLOOP       LOOP
ENDFIL  LDA     EOF         INSERT END OF FILE MARKER
        STA     BUFFER
        LDA    #3           SET LENGTH = 3
        STA     LENGTH
        J      @RETADR