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:
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Mats

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