Thread: How to read a file to a linked list?

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    Question How to read a file to a linked list?

    I have a data file with following structure
    111 (StudentID)
    Mary (StudentName)
    30 (Score)
    222 (StudentID)
    David (StudentName)
    40 (Score)
    ........

    (20 records in this data file)


    I want to how to read these data into a linked list:

    Struct student {
    int studentID;
    char name[20];
    int score;
    struct student *next;
    };

    Thank you very much !!!

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    >I want to how to read these data into a linked list:
    The same way you would read data from a file into any variable. Or are you asking how to read data from a file? Each data member in the record is on it's own line, this makes for insanely easy file input using functions such as fgets or fscanf, if you're implementing a linked list then you should know how to input data:
    fscanf ( fp, "%d\n%s\n%d", &s.id, s.name, &s.score );
    or
    s.id = atoi ( fgets ( buffer, sizeof buffer, fp ) );
    fgets ( s.name, sizeof s.name, fp );
    s.score = atoi ( fgets ( buffer, sizeof buffer, fp ) );

    Or some variation thereof. I didn't include any error checking, so you will need to include error checking and input validation. Especially with the scanf family of functions and the atoi fgets call, both of those can cause problems if you're not careful.

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