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Hi!

Here is my problem:

I got a text file which contains other text file's name (one by line)
Ex:
file1.cfg
file2.cfg
file3.cfg

When I loop through the file with fget to read each filename, and then pass this filename to fopen, it give me a seg fault because of the newline char fget reads. So I first though to use fscanf instead of fget and worked well until I realize it wouldn't read filename containing space and also, it doesn't read 'til the eof like fget did.

So my question is how can I remove the new line char read by fget?

I thought I could use strncpy(dest, source, strlen(source) - 1) but it didn't work :(

Thanks!
HiGiJJ!

akshayxx

lets say u have got the filename in ur variable
char fname[MAXLEN];
and u r sure there is one newline in this . that is at the end .. then do this

quick way
fname[strlen(fname)-1]='\0';
// this will not work if u have more than one newline in the string fname

here is another dirty but sure way
char *idx;
idx=strchr(fname,'\n');
*idx='\0';

btw show ur program and i'll suggest the exact change required to make it work..

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higijj

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Thanks a lot!!

the files are too complicated (not to understand, but spread over many files) to paste it here. but I gave it a try and worked perfectly!

thanks!

akshayxx

nice to know it worked .. good luck with rest of ur work