Reading lines of input
Read whole lines safely with fgets, strip the newline, parse them with sscanf and split them into words with strtok, the way real C tools do.
- The skill
- Read input a line at a time with fgets, then check and pick apart each line with sscanf and strtok.
- You make
- A score reader that skips broken lines, a command splitter for a text game and a playlist length counter.
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