Getting words from text file to an array

Question

My text file is formated like that:

my.txt
Red
Green
Blue
Yellow

I\'m tring to get words like that:

typedef char * string;
         


        

Answer 1

Since all the other answers told you what you did wrong but not how to fix it. Here

typedef char * string;
#define LEN 100 //long enough for your line
main(){
   int i;
   string array[4];

   for(i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
      if((array[i] = (char *)(malloc(sizeof(char) * LEN))) == NULL) {
          printf("malloc failed");
          return 1;
      }
   } 

   FILE *my;
   my = fopen("my.txt","r");
   for(i = 0; i < 4; i++)
         fscanf(data, "%s", &array[i]);
   fclose(my);
}

And like they said you made space for the pointers but not for what the pointers point to.