print the first letter of a file in C - c

Question

Hello guys I am having a problem in printing the first two letter/characters of a .txt file which contains --> "need help". I would like to print the first two letters --> "ne". I tried with ch[], but I couldnt fix, so i changed it back to the part which works:
int main() {
char ch, file_name[2];
int i;
FILE *fp;
printf("Enter the name of file you wish to see\n");
gets(file_name);
fp = fopen(file_name,"r");
if( fp == NULL )
{
printf("Error while opening the file.\n");
exit(1);
}
printf("The contents of %s file are :\n", file_name);
while( ( ch = fgetc(fp) ) != EOF )
printf("%c",ch);
fclose(fp);
return 0;
}

Answer 1

int main() {
char ch[2];
FILE *fp;
fp = fopen("file.txt","r");
fread(ch,2,1,fp);
printf("(%c%c) (%2.2s)",ch[0], ch[1],ch);
}
stdout :
(ne) (ne)

Answer 2

I don't know why you need only the two first letters, but here's how to do it.
char file_name[256];
gets(file_name);
int lenght = 0;
strlen(file_name) > 2 ? lenght = 2: lenght = strlen(file_name);
for(int i = 0; i < lenght; i++)
printf("%c", file_name[i]);
But an advice that I can give you for strings in C (char arrays) is try to always create a bigger array that you need. It doesn't cost much memory and it's always safer to have more than enough. When you call standards functions like printf(), they will check the null terminated character and this will defines the size of your string.

Answer 3

This is what i came up so far. It prints the first two characters, but then it prints questions marks within a square underneath.
Here is the code:
int main() {
char ch[2], file_name[100];
int i;
FILE *fp;
printf("Enter the name of file you wish to see\n");
gets(file_name);
fp = fopen(file_name,"r");
if( fp == NULL )
{
printf("Error while opening the file.\n");
exit(1);
}
printf("The contents of %s file are :\n", file_name);
fscanf(fp, "%2s", ch);
printf("%s\n", ch);
while( ( ch[i] = fgetc(fp) ) != EOF ){
printf("%c",ch);
}
fclose(fp);
return 0;
}