Extracting words from a file in C - c++

Question

Could anyone help me to correct the following code. I
need to extract words (sequence of non white space characters up to a white space character or a new line character). Here the code prints each letter of extracted word 3 times.
#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>
main()
{
FILE *fp1,*fp2,*fp3;
char ch,str[10],lab[10],opc[10],opd[10];
int i;
fp1=fopen("ma.dat","r");
while((ch = fgetc(fp1)) != EOF)
{
i=0;
if(ch!=' ' || '\n' || -1)
{
lab[i++]=ch;
}
lab[i]='\0';
i=0;
if(ch!=' ' || '\n' || -1)
{
opc[i++]=ch;
}
opc[i]='\0';
i=0;
if(ch!=' ' || '\n' || -1)
{
opd[i++]=ch;
}
opd[i]='\0';
printf("%s %s %s ",lab,opc,opd);
}
fcloseall();
}
and here is my input :
copy start 1000
lda alpha
lda five
sta six
six word 4
alpha rword 5
five byte c'eof'
end
and the output is :
c c c o o o p p p y y y s s s t t t a a a r r r t t t 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
l l l d d d a a a a a a l l l p p p h h h a a a
l l l d d d a a a f f f i i i v v v e e e
s s s t t t a a a s s s i i i x x x
s s s i i i x x x w w w o o o r r r d d d 4 4 4
a a a l l l p p p h h h a a a r r r w w w o o o r r r d d d 5 5 5
f f f i i i v v v e e e b b b y y y t t t e e e c c c ' ' ' e e e o o o f f f ' ' '
e e e n n n d d d
Here I used the logic that scan until eof reached and (tried) to get get separate words until some space or newline is reached.

Answer 1

Do you have a debugger? Set a breakpoint and step through the program, line by line. You'll find that there is at least one statement in your loop that makes no sense. Hint: Why do you have the i=0 statement there inside the loop?
If this isn't just a typo after too many days of coding, you may want to read up on how
A while loop works. Especially which commands get repeated.
If works. Especially the difference between conditional statements like "if" and loop statements like "while".
PS - I'm obviously biased, but if you're looking for a good C tutorial, try my C tutorial http://masters-of-the-void.com - It's written for the Mac, but you already have your compiler up and running and you've compiled your own programs with it, so just doing the samples on Linux should be well within your skills.