FILE pointer..problem with fscanf

Hello, I am new to file pointers. All I have to do is copy the values from one file (a1.txt), add 50 to each of the numbers and save it to another file (a2.txt)
a1.txt looks like:
11
12
13
....
25

a2.txt should look like:
61
62
63
...
75


The problem is fscanf is picking up only 1 instead of 11 in the first line of a1.txt and so 51 is getting printed instead of 61 in a2.txt. However, it is working fine for the subsequent lines. I am unable to figure out the problem...Kindly help...

here is the code:

Code:

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#include<stdio.h>
void main(){

FILE *fp1,*fp;

int i;
char ch;

fp=fopen("a1.txt","r");
fp1=fopen("a2.txt","w");


while (1)
{
    ch = fgetc( fp ) ;
    if(ch==EOF)
              break;

 
    fscanf(fp,"%d",&i);

    fprintf(fp1,"%d\n",i+50);
 }

}

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> ch = fgetc( fp ) ;
While your intent may be to burn a \n at the end of every line, and return EOF when you reach the end of file, it also consumes the very first character of the file.

Consider something like
while ( fscanf(fp,"%d",&i) == 1 ) fprintf(fp1,"%d\n",i+50);

Also, main returns and int, not void.

Thanks so much..I was not aware of this point...

• main function should return an int ,not void
• right before the main function terminates,you should write return 0; in order to state that the program exited fine
• what does fgetc do?Returns the character currently pointed by the internal file position indicator of the specified stream. The internal file position indicator is then advanced to the next character.
  (source : fgetc - C++ Reference )
• so you retrieve one char,thus the first digit from eleven and then you check if it is EOF.if it is not you just forget about it,and so does your program too
• guess what will happen if you place fgetc and the check after the fscanf and fprintf! now think.....Did you think?Ok you did i hope -> the answer is that it will perform the operation that you desire,but it will write one
  more number in a2.txt,because the check is performed after the fscanf and fprintf

Hope that helps

edit - > how slow am i! when started typing no posts were above me :P

:)..but thanks nevertheless for the explanations...got the point !

Code:

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int readint(int *d, FILE *stream)
{
    int r;

    while ((r = fscanf(stream, "%d", d)) != 1)
        if (r == EOF || getc(stream) == EOF)
            return EOF;
    return 0;
}

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Quote:

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Originally Posted by Barney McGrew

Code:

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int readint(int *d, FILE *stream)
{
    int r;

    while ((r = fscanf(stream, "%d", d)) != 1)
        if (r == EOF || getc(stream) == EOF)
            return EOF;
    return 0;
}

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It would be nice to explain your code.Remember that the goal is not to make the other just copy paste the code!The goal is that the other to learn....And better yet,to give him hints in order to produce his own code ;)

You know what a chinese emperor said once :
Give to your people a number of fishes,and they temporarily aren't going to be hungry.
Learn your people how to fish,and then they don't have to depend on you for giving them fishes.

PS - maybe he was japanese
PS - i can not recall it exactly,but it is something like this :)

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Sanchari Sircar

:)..but thanks nevertheless for the explanations...got the point !

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You are welcome Sanchari! Also welcome to the forum :D

@std10093:

fscanf, when given the format string "%d", will return one of three values. It returns 0 to indicate that the conversion failed (so you might handle this by advancing the stream's position by one with a call to getc), 1 to indicate that the conversion was successful, and EOF to indicate that there's either no more data in the stream, or that an error occurred which prevents you from reading data from the stream. That function will discard data from the stream until fscanf successfully matches and converts an integer, or getc/fscanf return EOF.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Barney McGrew

@std10093:

fscanf, when given the format string "%d", will return one of three values. It returns 0 to indicate that the conversion failed (so you might handle this by advancing the stream's position by one with a call to getc), 1 to indicate that the conversion was successful, and EOF to indicate that there's either no more data in the stream, or that an error occurred which prevents you from reading data from the stream. That function will discard data from the stream until fscanf successfully matches and converts an integer, or getc/fscanf return EOF.

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Oh now you think i didn't know what the code did :P Let me help you to get the point :)

The point is to give the beginners the explanation needed in order they understand how things work and as a result make them able to produce their own code.

What you do is understandable by me,because when i started writing here i did the same mistake as you.But the point is not to show your skills,but to help ;)

I believe the best way to learn is to read and write code. The behaviour of the function I wrote can be learned easily by reading the documentation for fscanf; either in man-pages, the standard documents, or a C reference. The whole point of using a programming language is to express computation, and using English for such purposes sort of defeats the purpose.