How to get exclude null terminators when reading in a string? - c

Question

This program opens a file that contains a lake's name and its volume in units of hundreds of cubic miles--separated by a space. Its output is supposed to be the lake's name followed by a number of asterisks to represent its volume to the nearest hundred cubic mile (for example, a lake that has 12.7 hundred cubic miles in volume would print 13 asterisks). However, when it reads in a name that contains a space, it reads up until the space and then prints the next string in a new line. Is there any way I can read "gross dirty lake" as one line instead of "gross\ndirty\nlake" for example? Here's what I have so far:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <math.h>
void name_asterisks(char name[20], float vol);
main() {
FILE *fp;
fp = fopen("lakes.txt", "r");
char name[20];
float vol;
if (fp == NULL) {
printf("File does not exist.\n");
system("pause");
return 0;
}
while (fscanf(fp, "%s %f", name, &vol) != EOF) {
name_asterisks(name, vol);
}
fclose(fp);
system("pause");
}
void name_asterisks(char name[20], float vol) {
int i;
printf("%s", name);
for (i = 0; i < (int)roundf(vol); i++)
printf("*");
printf("\n");
}

Answer 1

"%s" is for scanning non-white-space. Code needs a different format specifier.
char buf[100];
while (fgets(buf, sizeof buf, fp) != NULL) {
if (sscanf(buf, " %19[A-Za-z ]%f", name, &vol) != 2) {
fprintf(stderr, "Unexpected data\n");
break;
}
name_asterisks(name, vol);
}
" ": Skip white-spaces.
"%19[A-Za-z ]": Scan and save up to 19 letters or spaces, append '\0'.
"%f": Skip white-spaces and save scan a float.
Note about original code: Better to check for what code wants than checking against 1 undesired result
// while (fscanf(fp, "%s %f", name, &vol) != EOF) {
while (fscanf(fp, "%s %f", name, &vol) == 2) {

Answer 2

sample for like as gross dirty lake 12.7\n
#include <string.h> //for strrchr
...
char line[64];//line buffer
...
while (fgets(line, sizeof line, fp)){
char *p = strrchr(line, ' ');//search last ' '
*p = '\0';
//snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "%s", line);
vol = atof(p+1);
name_asterisks(line, vol);//name_asterisks(name, vol);
}