How to use fgets to read a file line by line

Question

I\'m new at programming so there are some basics and maybe common sense that I don\'t know. I have a question about how to use fgets right. Based on the explanation of fgets, it

Answer 1

// hello.c
//
// Usage:
//
// gcc -Wall hello.c && ./a.out /tmp/somefile.txt

#include      // for perror, ...
#include       // for printf, ...
#include      // for assert
#include    // for gettimeofday

static inline long long int nowUs () {
  long long int now;
  struct timeval timer_us;
  if (gettimeofday(&timer_us, NULL) == 0) {
    now = ((long long int) timer_us.tv_sec) * 1000000ll +
      (long long int) timer_us.tv_usec;
  }
  else now = -1ll;

  return now;
}

int main (const int argc, const char * argv[]) {
  assert(2 == argc);
  long long int started = nowUs();
  size_t count = 0;
  char msg[128], * fgets_rv;
  FILE * fp = fopen(argv[1], "r");

  while ((fgets_rv = fgets(msg, sizeof(msg), fp))) {
    assert(fgets_rv == msg);
    count++;
  }
  if (ferror(fp)) 
    perror(argv[1]);
  else if (feof(fp)) {
    printf("Read %zu lines of file '%s' in %lldµs\n", 
        count, argv[1], nowUs() - started);
  }
  else {
    printf("UNEXPECTED\n");
  }
  fclose(fp);
  return 0;
}

Sample output:

alec@mba ~/process/sandbox $ gcc -Wall hello.c && ./a.out /tmp/bigfile.t02
Read 100000 lines of file '/tmp/bigfile.t02' in 16521µs