c - Reading .txt File Input not Working

Question

So I am a beginner to C, and I am trying to open and read a file, storing each element of the file in an array. The following code seems like it should work in practice, but when the output gives me

50 2500

for whatever reason. If anybody could offer any help on what I need to fix, it would be greatly appreciated

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Answer 1

When you use fgets(), you're pulling strings(character arrays) from the file with the newline char as the delimiter. fscanf() would be more appropriate for pulling ints from files.

The reason your program prints 50 is because the value of magicSquareArray[0] after the while loop is '2', not 2, and the ascii value of '2' is 50.