fgets() won't read content from file to 2d array - c

Question

The fgetsstatement is not gathering anything from the calendarLog file stream into the events[][] array. My calendarLog.txt has five lines in it:
1/1/1 fds
2/2/2 dsa
3/3/3 sal
4/4/4 444
5/5/5 555
The printf statement is instructed to output one ! as well as the events[counter], however, my output statement is only the question marks, !!!!!, five of them (if I add more lines to calendarLog, it prints more exclamation points). Why does
while(fgets(events[counter++], EVENT_DESCR_SIZE, calendarLog) != NULL)
remain true and yet printf("!%s", events[counter]) not print the events[counter]?
All help appreciated!
FILE *calendarLog;
char events[MAX_EVENTS][EVENT_DESCR_SIZE],
*newLinePos;
int counter = 0,
index1,
index2;
for (index1 = 0; index1 < MAX_EVENTS; index1++)
for (index2 = 0; index2 < EVENT_DESCR_SIZE; index2++)
events[index1][index2] = 0;
if ((calendarLog = fopen("calendarLog.txt", "r")) == NULL)
{
calendarLog = (fopen("calendarLog.txt", "w"));
fprintf(calendarLog, "s\n", eventObject);
}
else
{
while (fgets(events[counter++], EVENT_DESCR_SIZE, calendarLog) != NULL)
{
if ((newLinePos = strchr(events[counter], '\n')) != NULL) //takes the '\n' out
*newLinePos = '\0'; //of the events[counter]
printf("!%s", events[counter]);
}

Answer 1

This should tell you everything you need to know about how to fix the problem:
FILE *calendarLog;
char events[MAX_EVENTS][EVENT_DESCR_SIZE];
char *newLinePos;
int counter = 0;
int index1;
int index2;
// initialize the array: events[][]
for (index1 = 0; index1 < MAX_EVENTS; index1++)
for (index2 = 0; index2 < EVENT_DESCR_SIZE; index2++)
events[index1][index2] = 0;
if ((calendarLog = fopen("calendarLog.txt", "r")) == NULL)
{ // fopen failed
calendarLog = (fopen("calendarLog.txt", "w"));
fprintf(calendarLog, "%s\n", eventObject); // 's' should be '%s
}
else
{ // fopen successful
while (fgets(events[counter++], EVENT_DESCR_SIZE, calendarLog) != NULL)
{
// following 'if' is looking at 'next' events because counter is already updated
// replace '\n' with null to terminate string for following printf
if ((newLinePos = strchr(events[counter], '\n')) != NULL)
*newLinePos = '\0';
// print the value
printf("!%s", events[counter]);
}
}