Question regarding fgets and new lines

I need to read in a comma separated file, and for this I was going to
use fgets. I was reading about it at http://www.cplusplus.com/ref/ and
I noticed that the document said:

"Reads characters from stream and stores them in string until (num -1)
characters have been read or a newline or EOF character is reached,
whichever comes first."

My question is that if it stops at a new line character (LF?) then how
does one read a file with multiple new line characters?

Another question. The syntax is:

char * fgets (char * string , int num , FILE * stream);

but you have to allot a size for the string before this. Would you just
use the same num as used in the fgets? So char stringexample[num] ?

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