Thread: help with parallel arrays!

i have a file attach below how can i read data from the file in to 6 following arrays
int ID[],
int maxHR[],
int age[],
float aveCommuteHR[],
float maxCommuteHR[],
float excerciseHr[]);

the first line of the data contain the id, maxHr and age, the nxt 5 lines contain the last three arrays, and the sixth line repeat the first line and next 5 lines after the sixth line also repeat and it keep repeat like that until EOF

i was suppose to use for loop nested inside a while(!EOF) loop and was not suppose to use struct or anything else beside basic looping stuff

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Quzah.

> i was suppose to use for loop nested inside a while(!EOF) loop and was not suppose to use struct or anything else beside basic looping stuff
Well in your other thread -> help with parallel array

while(!EOF)
Just isn't going to do what you want it to do.
EOF is a numeric constant (usually -1, also equivalent to 'true'). So saying !EOF is like saying 'false', so your loop does nothing.

Perhaps you should have

Code:

while ( i< NUM_PATIENT && fscanf(spData,"%d %d %d", &ID[i], &maxHR[i], &age[i]) == 3 ) {
    fprintf(spData,"%d %d %d", ID[i], maxHR[i], age[i]);
    i++;
}

Or (satisfying the assignment, but not very safe)

Code:

while ( i< NUM_PATIENT && fscanf(spData,"%d %d %d", &ID[i], &maxHR[i], &age[i]) != EOF ) {
    fprintf(spData,"%d %d %d", ID[i], maxHR[i], age[i]);
    i++;
}