Thread: Reading input and removing characters

Hi everyone I am writing a program where the input data is to be formatted into a table...
The input looks like this:

Code:

Header Header Header Header    Header
2081       12  2007    4       795500
2180       07  2009    6       165000
2140       12  2008    5       689000
2153       03  2008    4       491500
2140       02  2010    5       886500
2005       11  2007    4       776500
2151       07  2007    5       305500
2199       12  2010    5       895000
2101       04  2010    7       389500
2176       02  2008    2       959500

So this input data is to be formatted into a table..
The code i have for my program is this:

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
int main (int argc, char *argv[]) 
{

   int array[10][5];
   int i=0;
   int j=0;
   
   for (i=0;i<10;i++) {
      for (j=0; j<5;j++) {
               scanf("%d", &array[i][j]);
         }
       }
   printf("\n|");
    for (i=0;i<10;i++) {
       for (j=0; j<5;j++) {  
          printf(" %4d ", array[i][j]);
            printf(" ");
      }
      printf("|\n|");
   }

return 0;
}

This code works perfectly IF the headers weren't there.....Because they are characters my resulting table is a mess!!!!!
I need a way for scanf to ignore the characters....I looked around on the net and saw that i have to use some thing like

Code:

    char c = ' '; //give c an initial value

    //consume characters from the input until we get to the end of the line
    while(c != '\n') {
        scanf("%c", &c);
    }

BUT i do not know where to place this in the code or how it removes the characters...
Any help is appreciated...

Second header, leading zero? Can you be more specific?

Edit: I suppose you mean your second column? The reason for that is that 07 for example is really the same thing as 7, a leading zero have no meaning to the value. You need to look up the man page, or a book for printf to get information about format codes. You might have to solve your %4d in another way if you want leading zeroes with printf, look it up.