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I installed a new version of os X (10.7 initially and then updated to 10.7.5) - I lost man fgets in Terminal, it no longer exists(not olny fgets, some other too). I'm using xcode 4.6.3, updated all kinds of documentation. In documentation i got only FGETS(3), not fgets!
When i write this code:
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
FILE *wordFile = fopen ("/tmp/words.txt", "r");
char word[100];
while (fgets(word, 100, wordFile))
{
word[strlen(word) - 1] = '\0'; // strip off the trailing \n
NSLog (#"%s is %lu characters long", word, strlen(word));
}
fclose (wordFile);
return 0;
}
i got output:
Joe-Bob "Handyman" Brown
Jacksonville "Sly" Murphy
Shinara Bain
George "Guitar" Book is 84 characters long
Why?

Answer 1

My money on #Martin R.
fgets() did not find a converted \n in file "/tmp/words.txt" even though it was open in text mode "t". The editor used to create/edit the file is ending the lines with \r.
See #Michael Haren in Do line endings differ between Windows and Linux?
BTW: word[strlen(word) - 1] = '\0'; is potentially a problem, though not in this case, as strlen(word) may be 0. (#wildplasser)