Hello All, I am doing an game of life program in C lang. I'm stuck on how to read in values from a given file into a 2d array. I'm also having trouble on displaying the array in an interal of 5 until I reach a certain generation. I know I have to use a for loop. Please help soon :-)

void print_el(char *s, char *fmt); char *ptr = NULL; char *farray[500][50]; int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { FILE *fpt; int i = 0,j = 0; /* start init */ ptr = malloc(256); fpt = fopen(argv[1],"r"); /* end init */ if (fpt && ptr) { while ( (fgets(ptr,256,fpt)) != NULL) { i = j > 49 ? i + 1 : i; j = j > 49 ? 0 : j + 1; printf("%d %d: ", i, j); farray[i][j] = ptr; print_el(farray[i][j],"Array element: %s\n"); free(farray[i][j]); ptr = malloc(256); } fclose(fpt); return 0; } else { perror("Init"); return 1; } return 1; } void print_el(char *s, char *fmt) { printf(fmt, s); } How you want to split up your strings, to arrange for key::value pairs between % 5 countsallocate memory, clean up,etc.. all depends on you. This is a quick and very dirty read and storage and print and free example.