Thread: Check if string is a floating point number or not !!! Please Help

Hello ,
I'm a newbie in C and have been programming this for a while now .
Task: Read a csv file and look for floating point numbers . If you see a floating point number, then change the floating point number to six significant figures after the decimal point.

I have the code where the program reads the file, and seperates the strings from commas, I use the strtok function to tokenize between commas. Because my file is not in a proper array format or anything, its just goes on and its huge there are just some random commas in between.

My problem is , I'm not able to find a proper solution to check if the seperated token(i.e., strings) is a floating point number or not.

The file has words, binary numbers, integers, signed/unsigned floating point numbers.

Below is the code that I've got through so far and below that is the example of how the file looks like.

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <process.h>
#include <conio.h>


char *token;

 // Program that copies file frst_100l to a new file new_data.

   int main()
{
   char ch, data_in[1024], data_out[1024]; // initialize character for files
   char line[102400];
   char temp[30];
   char size;
   int i = 0;

      
    FILE *fp, *tp;  // file pointers
    printf("Enter name of file to copy\n"); // enter the name of the file for data
   gets(data_in); // get data to character pointer
 
   fp = fopen(data_in, "r"); // open file to read
 
   // if file has error then exit the debug
   if( fp == NULL )
   {
      printf("Press any key to exit...\n");
      exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
   } 
       


         
  while(fgets(line,102400,fp) != NULL)
       {           
            token=strtok(line,",");
            while( token != NULL )
           {
              /* While there are tokens in "string" */
              printf( " %s\n", token );
              /* Get next token: */
              token = strtok( NULL, "," );
           }
            
                if((token == 'a') && (*token <= 'z'))
                {
                    printf("%c",token);
                }
                
               
                               
           }
         
  
        
  
  
  free(token);

    
 
   //Enter the name of the file for the data to copy to
 
   //printf("Enter name of file data should be changed to \n");
   gets(data_out); // get data_out pointer
 
   tp = fopen(data_out, "w"); // open the file to write
 
   // close if error in creating or writing the file
   if( tp == NULL ) 
   {
      fclose(fp);
      printf("Press any key to exit...\n");
      exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
   }
 
   // while character is for data_out file is not equal to end of file
   // copy the data to new file 
   while( ( ch = fgetc(fp) ) != EOF )
   {
      fputc(ch, tp);
   }


   // print file copied successfully and close the debug window
   printf("File copied successfully.\n");
 
   fclose(fp);
   fclose(tp);

   return(0);
   }

Example of file :

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Thank you and please let me know

Ruthy

Personally, I would take it char by char, through the file. (Because the file has a lot of odd stuff that is not floats).

Then when you find a '.', I'd back up the index number until it reached either a comma, a space, or a newline char.

Now put every char into a small char array, until you reach the next comma, space, or newline char. That's your float.

Now read the string you just made, with sscanf() and store the float as a float.

Round it off to the number of digits you want, using the standard formula.

And print out the rounded off number. you can also round off a number directly using printf() format codes, but i don't believe your assignment would allow it.

I'll put up a little example of this, later on. It won't be a full program, however.

if all tokens are delimited by commas, i would tokenize on commas first. then maybe remove whitespace (write a function 'removeWhitespace') then separately write functions that recognize what type of token it is.functions such as 'isInteger', 'isWord', 'isFloat' etc. you have to define the rules that the types match. if a token has letters in it, its a word. if a token has only numbers and a '.' in it somewhere, its a floating point. if it has only numbers but no '.', its an integer. you also mention binary numbers. if you mean numbers containing only 0's and 1's, then it is hard to tell the difference between a decimal integer and a binary number. then once you know what type it is, sscanf it and output it as required.

and before trying to put this all in a loop, write a test program that tests your individual 'is' functions with fixed data to get them working, then worry about the loop. my point is that you should break the whole thing down into its individual pieces and get them working first.