Read All File Lines Into A Dynamically Allocated Array Of Strings | C Programming Example

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  • How to read and store all the lines of a file into a dynamically allocated array of strings in C. Source code: github.com/portfoliocourses/c.... Check out www.portfoliocourses.com to build a portfolio that will impress employers!

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  • @Majkieboy
    @Majkieboy Год назад +7

    Very happy to have found these, not enough C content around these days. Good job.

    • @PortfolioCourses
      @PortfolioCourses  Год назад +2

      Thank you, I'm glad you found the channel too! :-)

  • @edenng8431
    @edenng8431 Год назад +2

    Fantastic! Great details! Thank you for updating the C series.👍

  • @fifaham
    @fifaham Год назад +1

    Very helpful and useful, thank you Kevin. The good things about microcontrollers is that they can have their built-in memory expanded by connecting them to external memory, and that can be very large. A multiple blocks of memory chips can store large files of data and text for processing them at later time.

    • @PortfolioCourses
      @PortfolioCourses  Год назад +1

      You're welcome Firas! :-) And thank you for sharing this information with everyone too.

  • @arthur_p_dent4282
    @arthur_p_dent4282 Год назад

    Your content is second to non. Thanks you so much.

    • @PortfolioCourses
      @PortfolioCourses  Год назад +1

      You’re very welcome Arthur, and thank you for this kind feedback! :-)

  • @MrBolcetik
    @MrBolcetik Год назад +3

    I am currently an active student in Software Engineering, and every time you post a video it always related with the content that I am currently dealing with 😂. Thank you for this great video!

    • @PortfolioCourses
      @PortfolioCourses  Год назад +1

      You're very welcome! :-) And I'm really glad to hear these videos are relevant to what you are learning as a student... helping students is the biggest reason why I like making these videos.

    • @MrBolcetik
      @MrBolcetik Год назад

      @@PortfolioCourses I was coding a function called get_next_line and this is just what i was needed 😊

  • @idanmariani8601
    @idanmariani8601 Год назад +1

    thank you very much like allways.. i wish everyone will get to know your awsome channel and have tons of subscribed
    your the best teacher ever.. :)

  • @naboulsikhalid7763
    @naboulsikhalid7763 5 месяцев назад

    Great content, I think everything is mentioned here. Thank you KEVIN

  • @pragunmike1642
    @pragunmike1642 Год назад

    This is fab. Thank you 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

  • @LMZ914
    @LMZ914 Месяц назад

    Thank you sir you are the best

  • @richarddaygm
    @richarddaygm 2 месяца назад

    It is obvious but worth pointing out sizeof(char) is always 1, unlike sizeof(char *) which is the size of the pointer. So in the realloc, there is no point in timesing by sizeof(char), even though it would be more symmetrically pleasing!

  • @dev_ression
    @dev_ression Год назад +1

    great explanation bro!

    • @PortfolioCourses
      @PortfolioCourses  Год назад +1

      Thank you for the positive feedback, I’m glad you enjoyed the explanation! :-)

    • @dev_ression
      @dev_ression Год назад +1

      @@PortfolioCourses no problem!

  • @dogdog5994
    @dogdog5994 Год назад

    A little suggestion. You made a video about threading in C using the POSIX pthread library. I suggest videos about C11 threads and maybe more videos about POSIX threads (pthread).

    • @PortfolioCourses
      @PortfolioCourses  Год назад +2

      It’s funny you’re reading my mind haha, I’ve thought of doing more posix thread topics related to things like mutexes, passing arguments to functions, etc. And C11 threads is a topic I want to cover for sure too! :-)

    • @dogdog5994
      @dogdog5994 Год назад

      POSIX pthread vs. C11 threads and the differences would be an interesting topic too. Various compilers have supported pthread for quite a long time but it's not a part of the official C Standards. There was no official threads in the C Standard until C11 as far as I know.

    • @PortfolioCourses
      @PortfolioCourses  Год назад

      My understanding is that "underneath" C11 threads are implemented as pthreads in most platforms that support pthreads, and that pthreads are more widely used due to supporting more features even though C11 threads are more portable.

  • @sgarcia1070
    @sgarcia1070 Год назад +1

    I have two quick questions, what is the purpose of using the value of 1024 as suppose to another value, and my second question is does free() erase what’s in the string?

    • @PortfolioCourses
      @PortfolioCourses  Год назад

      There is no particular reason. It's a big round number that's divisible by 2 (divisibility by 2 can 'play well' with computers in general, compared to something like 537 or something). Another strategy we could use that may be better in some circumstances is to double the amount of memory allocated for the block each time. I've taken an assumption that this would be overkill and that more conservatively increasing the size by 1024 will be OK.
      And no, free() does not erase what's free'd.
      Those are both great questions by the way! :-)

  • @yamithere_
    @yamithere_ Год назад

    I just wanna ask what is the difference between having brackets after the for loop and nesting the next for loop compared to the ones without the brackets?

    • @PortfolioCourses
      @PortfolioCourses  Год назад +1

      When we use brackets, we an have multiple statements in the "body" of the for loop. Without brackets, we can only have a single statement. :-)

    • @yamithere_
      @yamithere_ Год назад

      @@PortfolioCourses Thank you!

    • @PortfolioCourses
      @PortfolioCourses  Год назад

      You're welcome! :-)

  • @studentofedison421
    @studentofedison421 4 месяца назад +1

    why **line instead of *line . why line is a pointer to pointer to char instead of pointer to char

  • @ziwaang2250
    @ziwaang2250 8 месяцев назад

    Great video! For a 2D string array, would it then be "char ***" ?

    • @PortfolioCourses
      @PortfolioCourses  8 месяцев назад +1

      Yes, that should work, and what you would have would be a 2D array of pointers to strings essentially. :-)

    • @ziwaang2250
      @ziwaang2250 8 месяцев назад

      @@PortfolioCourses Thank You!

  • @Mo3au4HbIu_Ba3oH
    @Mo3au4HbIu_Ba3oH Год назад

    I was looking for some copper, but found the real gold

  • @jerryli5555
    @jerryli5555 8 месяцев назад

    The getline() Function can read a whole line

    • @user-gf7gq4fb3p
      @user-gf7gq4fb3p 8 месяцев назад

      So does fgets. But getline() is a bit more complicated than fgets.

  • @mba2ceo
    @mba2ceo 4 месяца назад

    plz do this in c++ using NEW

  • @ramakrishna4092
    @ramakrishna4092 Год назад +1

    Wonderful explanation sir and congratulations for 22k sub...👏👏👏
    I have doubt here ..
    typedef int (*function)(int a, int b); this is one way I know typedef the function pointer but I'm getting confused how this is acting as function pointer Below syntax can you pls explain this .
    "typedef int function(int a, int b);"
    I have also found this code sample using the above syntax
    #include
    int add(int a, int b) {
    return a + b;
    }
    int sub(int a, int b) {
    return a - b;
    }
    typedef int function(int a, int b);
    int call_function(function *p, int a, int b) {
    return p(a, b);
    }
    int main(void) {
    int sum;
    sum = call_function(&add, 10, 5);
    printf("add: %d
    ", sum);
    sum = call_function(&sub, 10, 5);
    printf("sub: %d
    ", sum);
    return 0;
    }

    • @PortfolioCourses
      @PortfolioCourses  Год назад +1

      Hi Rama, it looks like this line here:
      typedef int function(int a, int b);
      is creating "function" as a typedef, effectively a synonym, for a function that returns an int and accepts two ints as arguments. And then here:
      int call_function(function *p, int a, int b) {
      call_function accepts a pointer to a function like this as an argument, which is supplied when it is passed the address of add and sum. :-)

  • @yoruichi5802
    @yoruichi5802 Год назад

    I tought it was forbiden to exit a loop with a break

    • @PortfolioCourses
      @PortfolioCourses  Год назад +1

      No, it’s not forbidden, it’s part of why it’s in the language. :-) Maybe a teacher would advise a student not to use break so students learn to use loops “the normal way”. But using breaks in a loop is normal in practice.

    • @yoruichi5802
      @yoruichi5802 Год назад

      @@PortfolioCourses true!

    • @PortfolioCourses
      @PortfolioCourses  Год назад

      @@yoruichi5802 🙂

  • @YoungOrbital
    @YoungOrbital 5 месяцев назад

    while( !feof(file) )