Thread: Read colums from a file to inser them in structs

Hello

I must read information form a text file and i am currently using the function strtok to separete the information that is in colums to insert it into a structure in the program.
Anyway, i think that's not the best and simple way to do it, so i wonder how it could be done.

I have something like this: (colums separate by \n and lines by \n)
field1\field2\field3\field4\n
field1\field2\field3\field4\n
field1\field2\field3\field4\n
field1\field2\field3\field4\n

Each line would be in a structure and each field in an element of each structure.

I think there must be a better way to trade with this problem as this text organization is very used in logs or small things that doesnt requiere from any BD.

Thank you

I don't see any problem using strtok. Alternatively if you know for certain that there are only 4 fields on each line you could read everything in one string and parse it yourself. However, that is basically the same thing as strtok-ing it.