I am very new to C. I am trying to read the words from a file which contains lots of not alpha characters. My input file looks something like this %tOm12%64ToMmy%^$$6
and I want to read tom first and then put tom in my data structure and then read tommy and put that in my data structure all in lowercase. This is what I have tried until now. All my other code works as I have manually sent the parameters to the methods and there are no errors. This is what I have tried to read the words from the file. A word can be of 100 characters max. Can someone help me understand the logic and possibly this code.I am very lost.Thank You!
void read(FILE *fp)
{
FILE *fp1 = fp;
char word[100];
int x;
int counter = 0;
while ((x = fgetc(fp1)) != EOF)
{
if (isalpha(x) == 0)
{
insert(&tree,word);
counter = 0;
}
if (isalpha(x) != 0)
{
tolower(x);
word[counter] = x;
counter++;
}
}
rewind(fp1);
fclose(fp1);
}
char *getWord(FILE *fp){
char word[100];
int ch, i=0;
while(EOF!=(ch=fgetc(fp)) && !isalpha(ch))
;//skip
if(ch == EOF)
return NULL;
do{
word[i++] = tolower(ch);
}while(EOF!=(ch=fgetc(fp)) && isalpha(ch));
word[i]='\0';
return strdup(word);
}
void read(FILE *fp){
char *word;
while(word=getWord(fp)){
insert(&tree, word);
}
//rewind(fp1);
fclose(fp);
}