writing a string to a file

Creamy Goodness

i'm trying to write a string to a file.

here's the code

void write_to_file(Widgets *w)
{
    FILE *file = NULL;
    char* filename = "setup";
    gchar* fs = gtk_combo_box_get_active_text(GTK_COMBO_BOX(w->fs_combo));
    
    g_print("fs = %s\n", fs);
        
        
    /*open the file*/
    file = fopen(filename, "w");
    
    /*show error if cannot open file*/
    if(file == NULL)
    {
        show_error(w->window, "cannot open or create file", "please try again!");
    }
    else
    {
        fwrite(fs, 1, sizeof(fs), file);
        fclose(file);
    }

}

here's what's in the combo box

"Ext 2 (Extended File System 2)"
"Ext 3 (Extended File System 3)"
"FAT 16 (File Allocation Table 16)"
"FAT 32 (File Allocation Table 32)"

using g_print("fs = %s\n", fs); will print out the full text of the string selected in the combo box into the console window. but when i go to write it to the file i just get the amount of text up to the first white space character.

eg. i pick Ext 2, in the file i get:

Ext

there's a space in the above after Ext.

the code compiles perfectly with no errors and no warning but i can't seem to figure out why it's bailing out, would it be because of the () contained within the string although i took them out and it still fails at that point?

Martyr

[PHP]fwrite(fs, 1, sizeof(fs), file);[/PHP]

looks wrong to me.
prototype

[PHP]size_t fwrite ( const void * ptr, size_t size, size_t count, FILE * stream );[/PHP]

also, when you say sizeof(fs), thats only size of char * which would be..4 bytes?

should work like:

[PHP]fwrite(fs,strlen(fs),1,file);[/PHP]

Creamy Goodness

d'oh, of course.

used sizeof(fs) instead of strlen(fs)