To read a line from a file, you should use the fgets
function: It reads a string from the specified file up to either a newline character or EOF
.
The use of sscanf
in your code would not work at all, as you use filename
as your format string for reading from line
into a constant string literal %s
.
The reason for SEGV is that you write into the non-allocated memory pointed to by line
.