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Reading specific number of lines

How should I read a specific number of lines in C? Any tips, since I can’t seem to find a relevant thread.

I would like to read N lines from a file and N would be argument given by the user.

Up until this point I have been reading files this way: (line by line until NULL)

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int main(void) {
    char line[50];
    FILE *file;
    file= fopen("filename.txt", "r"); 
    printf("File includes:\n");

    while (fgets(line, 50, file) != NULL) {
        printf("%s", line);
    }
    fclose(file);
    return(0);
}

>Solution :

If N is given by the user, you could just make your loop count up to N:

for (int i = 0; i < N && fgets(line, sizeof line, file); ++i) {
    fputs(line, stdout);
}
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