Debug Assertion Failed: file reading in C using CLion - c

This is the code that was provided as starter code on which I have to answer a couple of question using the data provided in data.txt file. data.txt is kept in the same folder as my code and contains line separated words all of which are of length 21. I am familiar with C but I do not know anything related to files and file management.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
int main(void) {
char* fname = "data.txt";
FILE *fptr = NULL;
char line[20000][22];
int i = 0;
fptr = fopen(fname, "r");
while(fgets(line[i],20000,fptr))
{
line[i][strlen(line[i]) - 1] = '\0';
i++;
}
printf("Read a file with %d lines.\n",i);
}
When I run this code in CLion, the following error appears.
I am using LLVM clang compiler. The same error appears even if I use Microsoft Visual Studio compiler. It would be helpful if you can explain what the error means and how to resolve it!

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Here is my program:
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#include <stdlib.h>
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for (double i = -0.001; i < 0.001; i += 0.00001) {
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}
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I hope someone can solve my problem.
The error reported for FILE seems unwarranted. Check these possibilities:
maybe the compiler cannot find the standard header files, but it should report this as an error too.
is there is an empty file called stdio.h somewhere in your include path?
Note also these problems:
to open the file for writing, you should use "w", not "W".
you should test for fopen failure, which probably happens because of the above mistake.
the number of iterations in the loop may not be exactly 200 because of cumulative errors adding 0.00001, which cannot be represented exactly using binary floating point representation.
the expression -pow(i,4)*1/(840)+(i*i)*1/(30)-1/3 seems incorrect: 1/3 evaluates to 0 because it uses integer arithmetics.
Here is a modified version:
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
int main() {
FILE *fp = fopen("taula.txt", "w");
if (fp == NULL) {
fprintf(stderr, "cannot open taula.txt: %s\n", strerror(errno));
return 1;
}
for (double j = -100; j < 100; j += 1) {
double i = j / 100000.;
double i2 = i * i;
fprintf(fp, "%f %.14f\n", i, -i2*i2/840. + i2/30. - 1./3.);
}
fclose(fp);
return 0;
}
I cannot say why it claims that FILE is undefined — on that front, your code looks fine to me, and it compiles without issues (and since you can run it, I assume it must have compiled for you too, which it wouldn't have if FILE was indeed undefined).
It does, however, segfault. I strongly recommend that you check that the return value of fopen isn’t NULL, and, when you have found out that it is, that you read the fopen manpage carefully, especially the section on what the legal values for the second argument are.
EDIT: And the comment about constants being ints is worth listening to, even if that’s unlikely to cause segfaults.

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I am trying to write "File opened" in a existing test.txt file with C program. But I must not create a test.txt file with the program. I have to write with in a existing file.
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Here is my code:
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