[Shapelib] Creating Point shapefiles

[Ajay]

Greetings all,
I was trying to create a point shapefile from a text file with X and Y
values. I don't know how to go about with that. I tried to make it, but it
is not working. If anyone can help me out with this, that will be really
helpful.
Thanks a lot
Below is the code which I tried 

int texttoshape(char* txtfile,char* shpfile)
{
FILE *fp;
char header[9];
fp=fopen(txtfile,"r");
char lbl[2];
float x,y,z,ts;
int sp,i=0;
shapefile *shfile;
shape *shp;
api_point pnt;

shfile=new shapefile();
shfile->create(shpfile,1);
fscanf(fp,"%s %s %s %s %s %s",header,header,header,header,header,header);
while (!feof(fp))
{
	fscanf(fp,"%s %f %f %f %f %i",lbl,&x,&y,&z,&ts,&sp);
	pnt.setX(x);
	pnt.setY(y);
	shp=new shape();
	shp->insertPoint(pnt,i);
	shfile->insertShape(shp,i);
	i++;
}

shfile->save(shpfile);
shfile->close(shpfile);
	return 0;
}
ajay