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Help me with file operations in C

I have this file myfile.txt with a three lines of data. But when I run this code to read the data character by character and print it, it prints infinite small question marks. I don't know why. Help me figure it out https://code.sololearn.com/c8d95yWpaD63/?ref=app

8th Jun 2021, 5:15 AM
Rishi
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Can you show use the content of the file ? What do you see when you put "abc" in the file. GetC stands for "Get character" Why should it read line by line?
8th Jun 2021, 5:25 AM
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sneeze the file's contents are Inventory 100 Widget 0.29 End of List I expect it to read character by character only. But for some reason I get unknown charcters printed infinitely. Could it be the type of c? Should it be int instead of char?
8th Jun 2021, 5:32 AM
Rishi
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sneeze okay thank you I got it. The type of c should be int instead of char as fgetc returns the ASCII values of the characters
8th Jun 2021, 6:18 AM
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