File for loop C - c

Question

I'm trying to make a loop where my "soft" variable is taking the value of my other variable.
I'm trying to put each words of my file text (country-name, an espace, capital-of-country) in table.
But I can't find how to do it...
There's my program (partly) :
int main(){
FILE *Africa;
FILE *America;
FILE *Asia;
FILE *Europe;
FILE *Oceania;
int countryIndex = 0;
int capitalIndex;
char countryTable[15][30];
char capitalTable[15][30];
//FILE country[] = {Africa, America, Asia, Europe, Oceania};
Africa = fopen("Africa.txt", "r");
America = fopen("America.txt", "r");
Asia = fopen("Asia.txt", "r");
Europe = fopen("Europe.txt", "r");
Oceania = fopen("Oceania.txt", "r");
if (Africa == NULL || America == NULL || Asia == NULL || Europe == NULL || Oceania == NULL){
printf("Error, failed when trying to open the continent file.\n");
return 1;
}
for (FILE *country = {Africa, America, Asia, Europe, Oceania}){
while (fscanf(country, "%s", countryTable[countryIndex]) != EOF){
fscanf(country,"%s", capitalTable[countryIndex]);
countryIndex++;
}
for (capitalIndex = 0; capitalIndex < countryIndex; capitalIndex++){
printf("Country : %s - ", countryTable[capitalIndex]);
printf("Capital : %s\n", capitalTable[capitalIndex]);
}
}
/*while (fscanf(Africa, "%s", countryTable[countryIndex]) != EOF){
fscanf(Africa,"%s", capitalTable[countryIndex]);
countryIndex++;
}
for (capitalIndex = 0; capitalIndex < countryIndex; capitalIndex++){
printf("Country : %s - ", countryTable[capitalIndex]);
printf("Capital : %s\n", capitalTable[capitalIndex]);
}*/
fclose(Africa);
fclose(America);
fclose(Asia);
fclose(Europe);
fclose(Oceania);
return 0;
}
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Answer 1

I found a solution, even if it's not the way I wanted to do it. By modifying my code like this :
int main(){
char *continentName[] = {"Africa.txt", "America.txt", "Asia.txt", "Europe.txt", "Oceania.txt"};
int nbrContinent = sizeof continentName / sizeof continentName[0];
int countryIndex = 0;
int capitalIndex;
char countryTable[15][30];
char capitalTable[15][30];
for (int i = 0; i < nbrContinent; i++){
FILE *continent = fopen(continentName[i], "r");
if (continent == NULL){
printf("Error, failed when trying to open the continent file.\n");
return 1;
}
while (fscanf(continent, "%s", countryTable[countryIndex]) != EOF){
fscanf(continent,"%s", capitalTable[countryIndex]);
countryIndex++;
}
fclose(continent);
}
for (capitalIndex = 0; capitalIndex < countryIndex; capitalIndex++){
printf("Country : %s - ", countryTable[capitalIndex]);
printf("Capital : %s\n", capitalTable[capitalIndex]);
}
return 0;
}
This way it's easier and I get around the problem haha.
By doing so, each capital name is associated with its country in the tables. e.g. tabContinent[1] -> tabCountry[1]
I just put the retrieval of each word in my files in the initial for loop so that I don't have to redo one. To do this, I changed the type of my "FILE" variables into an array of chars that directly contains the names of the files in question. Then you have to be careful to close the files at the end of the loop but inside (otherwise the function doesn't end correctly and can cause problems when calling another function). And finally, add a for loop outside the first one (otherwise the values of the arrays are displayed each time the files are read) in order to enter the data retrieved in the arrays.