In C, how to print out a txt file line by line?

Question

int main()
{
   FILE *infile;
   FILE *infile2;
   char input[255],input2[255];
   int status1, status2;

   infile = fopen("test.txt", "r");
   infile2 = fopen("test2.txt", "r");
   if(infile == NULL)
   {
      printf("Can not open file 1!\n");
   }
   else if(infile2 == NULL)
   {
      printf("Can not open file 2!\n");
   }
   else
   {
      do
      {
        status1 = fscanf(infile, "%s", &input);
        status2 = fscanf(infile2, "%s", &input2);

        printf("File 1: %s\n File 2: %s\n", input, input2);
     }while(status1 != -1 || status2 != -1);
   }
   fclose(infile);
   fclose(infile2);

   return 0;
}

My output looks like this:

Output

I would like to print out file 1 in one line not word by word. The same goes for file2. I'm kinda new to C so I'm stuck.

Answer 1

If you would like to read the entire line, use fgets function instead of fscanf:

char *status1, *status2;
   .
   .
   .
do {
    status1 = fgets(input, sizeof(input), infile);
    status2 = fgets(input2, sizeof(input2), infile2);
    printf("File 1: %s File 2: %s", input, input2);
} while (status1 || status2);

Note how printf no longer uses \n. This is because fgets keeps \n from the file inside your input string.