How do I read in this as a string?

[scarlet00014]

I have a file that I can already read in

If the file says:

Jamie 20

I use this code:
fscanf(file,"%s %lf", struct_ptr[1].name, &struct_ptr[1].number);

struct_ptr[1].name = "Jamie" and then struct_ptr[1].number = 20

so... what if I had:

Jamie Lynn 20

I dont know how to make struct_ptr[1].name equal the whole string "Jamie Lynn"

[ThLstN]

You can try this where 20 in %20 is the length of string you need to read.
But this isn't safe so you should probably try an another method.

fscanf(file,"%20s %lf", struct_ptr[1].name, &struct_ptr[1].number);

[tabstop]

That's still going to stop at spaces. There are scansets, so you could do something like %<some number>[^0123456789] to read in up to a digit. (The <some number> is the size of the buffer .name.) Granted, you'll get the space at the end, but that's easily fixable.

[scarlet00014]

no thats not the only name in the file

I have like:
Jamie lynn 20
Eric D. Mcdaniel 40
Joe 23

so I need to read in the name for the name part of the struct, then the number for the number part of the struct.

[vart]

read whole line into temp buffer using fgets
use strrchr to find last space
copy the part before space into name
convert part after space using strtol into number

[matsp]

What vart suggests will certainly work. Another method would be to change the input file format so that you have:

"Joe", 20
"Jimmy Hoffa", 21
"E.W. Bloggs", 23
"Eric John Jones-Smithe", 46

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