Thread: reading a textfile and storing the information into a structure array?

say I have a text file that follows the format:

student last name student number student grade

for example:

smith 17892 82
peterson 12891 79
mcdonald 97022 93

and so on, and i want to read the text file that contains this data and then store it into structure array with data types

char student_name
char student_id
int student_grade

how can I do this? thanks.

Well, what part is stumping you or have you done nothing?

And the problem is what exactly? (Reading? Reading from a file? Storing a string into a char array?) And I guarantee you that student_name and student_id are not of type char.

i've created the structure lol. i dont know how to read or store though :|.

Do you know how you would do it if people were typing at the keyboard vs. reading from a file?

yeah I do.

I think tabstop is saying show us how you would do it in the case of someone sitting and typing it in, and we'll go from there.

Originally Posted by rags_to_riches

I think tabstop is saying show us how you would do it in the case of someone sitting and typing it in, and we'll go from there.

Especially since the difference between the two consists mainly of the letter "f".

Yes indeed

i got it guys, i found out how to use the fopen fscan stuff and its cool now. thanks anyway.