How to check if a file exists in C from user input

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I'm a complete noob to C and I wondered why if I take a user input why it wont find the file but when I hard code it using: ``` const char * fn = "/Users/james/Documents/test.rtf"; ``` It seems to work fine? ``` char text[100]; fputs("File location: ", stdout); fflush(stdout); fgets(text, sizeof text, stdin); FILE *fp = fopen(text,"r"); if( fp ) { printf("
File Exists"); fclose(fp); } else { printf("
Files doesn't exist"); } ``` Any help would be awesome, or just a point to some online source that I have clearly not been able to find. :)

Accepted Answer

`fgets` reads a line and keeps the final newline character. You'll have to strip that off by

```
text[strlen(text) - 1] = '\0';
```

(After doing the proper error checking, of course.)

How to check if a file exists in C from user input

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