How Do I "c"?

K im pretty fluent with python but have recently switched too "C" and found it far more complicated =( i was wondering if anybody could help me with opening a file named "program" ?? Im on linux, and i wanna open a file in my home directory and get the letters fpdirectory. . So far i have this
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
FILE *program;
do {
char ch;
ch = getc(fp);
}
while(ch!=EOF);
}

can you tell me what im doing wrong plz??? thanks a ton

Sorry i forgot to include something
FILE *program;
fopen(program);
do {


THATS how it really is i accidently typed it in wrong

Hi WhiteDwarf18, not 100% certain what you are trying to do, but it looks to me like you are trying to read the contents of a file to STDOUT. Here is a simple (crude is a better word :) ) example of reading from a file with fopen()

Code:

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

#define BUFSIZE 128

int main( void )
{
    FILE *fp;
    char ch, buf[BUFSIZE], filename[128];

    // What file do you want to read?
    printf( "Enter the name of the file you want to read: " );
    fgets( filename, 128, stdin );
    filename[strlen( filename ) -1 ] = 0;

    // Open the file for reading
      if (( fp = fopen( filename, "r" )) == NULL )
      {
          fprintf( stderr, "Error opening file.\n" );
          exit( 1 );
      }

      // While the end of the file has not been reached, read a line and display it
      do
      {
            fgets( buf, BUFSIZE, fp );
            printf( "%s", buf );
      } while( !feof(fp) );
     
      printf( "\n" );
      fclose( fp );
 
      return 0;
}

      // Alternatively, we could have done a while loop similar to the one
      // in your post which might look something like this.
      //
      // do
      // {
      //        printf( "%c", ch );
      //  } while(( ch = fgetc( fp ) != EOF );

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Hope that helps