[c++] How to read a line from a text file in c/c++?

After exhaustive googling and visiting many forums, I am yet to find a good comprehensive answer for this question. A lot of the forums suggest using the get line istream& getline (char* s, streamsize n ) function. My question is what if I don't know what the length of each line is and cannot predict what the size may be? Also what is it's equivalent in C?

Is there any specific function in c /c++ to read one single line each time from a text file ?

Explanation , with Code snippets will help me a lot.

getline() is what you're looking for. You use strings in C++, and you don't need to know the size ahead of time.

Assuming std namespace:

 ifstream file1("myfile.txt");
 string stuff;

 while (getline(file1, stuff, '\n')) {
      cout << stuff << endl;
 }

 file1.close();

In C++, you can use the global function std::getline, it takes a string and a stream and an optional delimiter and reads 1 line until the delimiter specified is reached. An example:

#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>

int main() {
    std::ifstream input("filename.txt");
    std::string line;

    while( std::getline( input, line ) ) {
        std::cout<<line<<'\n';
    }

    return 0;
}

This program reads each line from a file and echos it to the console.

For C you're probably looking at using fgets, it has been a while since I used C, meaning I'm a bit rusty, but I believe you can use this to emulate the functionality of the above C++ program like so:

#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
    char line[1024];
    FILE *fp = fopen("filename.txt","r");

    //Checks if file is empty
    if( fp == NULL ) {                       
        return 1;
    }

    while( fgets(line,1024,fp) ) {
        printf("%s\n",line);
    }

    return 0;
}

With the limitation that the line can not be longer than the maximum length of the buffer that you're reading in to.

In C, fgets(), and you need to know the maximum size to prevent truncation.

im not really that good at C , but i believe this code should get you complete single line till the end...

 #include<stdio.h>

 int main()   
{      
  char line[1024];    
  FILE *f=fopen("filename.txt","r");    
  fscanf(*f,"%[^\n]",line);    
  printf("%s",line);    
 }