How to store multiple strings in array in c

Question

Hey so Im currently trying to store multiple strings that are coming from a text file from the command line args. I have been told to use a 2D array so i declared one of size [count] which is 4 in this example. However when i got to use fgets to store each line in the array, it doesnt seem to be working as when i print the result to console, i get a bunch of random characters.

count = 4;

char string_array[count][100];

    int loop_counter = 0;
    while (!feof(file_pointer) && loop_counter < 10)
    {
       fgets(string_array[loop_counter], 150, file_pointer);
       loop_counter += 1;
    }

printf("First string is %s", string_array[0]);

The last printf statement returns this:

First string is ▒▒ap▒ X▒a

See the random characters^. First string is supposed to be "A 1 2 3 4 5". The text file looks like this:

A 1 2 3 4 5
B 0 0
C 1 1
F 2 2

Answer 1

As @kleshenki mentioned, it could be an encoding issue.

I tried refactoring the code to use getline instead. So give that a go. If it doesn't work, I will delete this post.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>


int main()
{
    int count = 4;

    char string_array[count][100];
    FILE *fp = fopen("test.txt","r");

    ssize_t read;
    int i = 0;
    size_t n = 100;
    char *lines = string_array[i];
    while (i<count&&( read=getline(&lines, &n, fp) )!= -1)
    {

        lines = string_array[i];
    }

    printf("First string is %s", string_array[0]);
    printf("Second string is %s", string_array[1]);
    fclose(fp);
}