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    <p>I have a file with random characters in basically a word search format. i would like to be able to take all the characters in it and put it into a 2d puzzle array so that i am able to type something like printf("the value is %c",puzzle[2][2]); and it will print the value in the 3rd row and 3rd column (since it starts at 0...) heres my code so far.</p> <pre><code>#define MAXROWS 60 #define MAXCOLS 60 #include &lt;stdio.h&gt; #include &lt;string.h&gt; #include &lt;stdlib.h&gt; #include &lt;math.h&gt; main() { char TableFileName[100]; char PuzzleFileName[100]; char puzzle[MAXROWS][MAXCOLS]; char line[MAXCOLS]; FILE *TableFilePtr; int cols = 0; int rows = 0; printf("Please enter the table file name: "); scanf("%s",TableFileName); /* ... */ TableFilePtr = fopen(TableFileName, "r"); while (fgets(line, sizeof line, TableFilePtr) != NULL &amp;&amp; rows &lt; MAXROWS) { for (cols; cols&lt;(strlen(line)-1) &amp;&amp; cols &lt; MAXCOLS; ++cols) { puzzle[rows][cols] = line[cols]; } ++rows; } printf("%c",puzzle[2][2]); } </code></pre> <p>the puzzle[x][y] doesnt contain any values once the program runs. any ideas?</p> <p>update1: changed for cols to for cols=0 update2: added printf("\nthe rows are at %d, cols at %d, puzzle[%d,%d]=%c line[cols]=%c",rows,cols,rows,cols,puzzle[rows,cols],line[cols]); to for loop update3: after update 2, i see the line[cols] characters are getting every character in the puzzle, but not int the correct order. also, the line[cols] isnt correctly being put into the puzzle[rows][cols]. heres some of what what im seeing (not sure why its making me put it as code but whatever):</p> <pre><code>the rows are at 0, cols at 0, puzzle[0,0]=l line[cols]=A the rows are at 0, cols at 1, puzzle[0,1]=▒ line[cols]= the rows are at 0, cols at 2, puzzle[0,2]=▒ line[cols]=B the rows are at 0, cols at 3, puzzle[0,3]= line[cols]= the rows are at 0, cols at 4, puzzle[0,4]=\ line[cols]=D the rows are at 0, cols at 5, puzzle[0,5]=▒ line[cols]= the rows are at 0, cols at 6, puzzle[0,6]=▒ line[cols]=E the rows are at 0, cols at 7, puzzle[0,7]= line[cols]= the rows are at 0, cols at 8, puzzle[0,8]=L line[cols]=Q the rows are at 0, cols at 9, puzzle[0,9]=▒ line[cols]= the rows are at 0, cols at 10, puzzle[0,10]=▒ line[cols]=T </code></pre> <p>the A,B,D,E,A,T are correct but... A should be puzzle[0,0], B should be [0,1] D should be [0,2] etc...</p> <p>heres a sampler of the input... (would be in a txt file)</p> <pre><code>K N R D J P L H X E K B W M X A M U Y A L E F Q N D L D B D B S W W M T F B K Z D G A L V L K U N U R C R I E I H N L A N D N T O V P O G R U U Y X E D L Y R M Q D T T Y C G Y E M A S I E X P V Z N W H X B D G G R T K V C W M Y C X A M I E U T Z J U O C N F F L R E F B T D R Y W R K V A C B H G L C F D Y X R Z Q E R E H N Q D S J H T R G E N Y Y K F J V G S C G D H O G K A F E M I S S Q P S J Z A B V A A P E E P R K F T A H W C G B J N N L W B F V F Z Y T V Y E O C Y A D L Q Q P P F V W K M E U V O </code></pre>
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