How do you open up a file using C and have it output to the window?

[Unregistered]

I'm trying to take an external input file and perform operations onto it. The file is a bunch of HEX code that I want to sum up. Using the following function (declared in the program previously):

/************************
* open the input file *
************************/

void file(void)
{
hex= fopen("EProm0109-0502.HEX", "r");
if (hex == NULL)
{
printf("Error, file is not found. \n");
exit(1);
}
}

in my main program, i try and call this by using the following command:

while(fscanf(hex, "%d", hexstr) != EOF)
{
printf("%d\n", hexstr);
}

What am I doing wrong? Also, how can i get the numbers to read out as hex numbers, not decimal as %d would seem to indicate or a string as %s would imply?

[Prelude]

>fscanf(hex, "%d", hexstr)
If hexstr is not an integer then this is wrong anyway, otherwise you need to do something more like this:

fscanf( hex, "%x", &hexstr )

>printf("%d\n", hexstr);
If you want the variable to be printed as a hexadecimal value, use %#x:

printf ( "%#x\n", hexstr );

-Prelude

[Unregistered]

that cleaned it up a little, but I don't get the proper output. My first line in my input file should be a string of hex values:
0E00000040C0068450B0040188B00701BCC0A7

but my program outputs:

12ff24

I don't know what number represents.

[Prelude]

How is the file formatted? It's very possible that you are reading several values as one and causing general mayhem to your variable.

-Prelude

[Unregistered]

i think it's simply one entry per line... with a return placed at the end of every line. I'm not sure if the program is reading it this way though. Maybe it is reading the entries without a carriage return. If this is the case, how do i read an entry in line by line from the original source?

[Hammer]

An example using an array as it's input.... (simulating a file, well kind of!).

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
	char a[] = "0E00000040C0068450B0040188B00701BCC0A7";
	char *p = a;
	int i;
	
    while (sscanf(p, "%1x", &i) == 1)
    {
    	printf ("0x%02x\n", i);
    	p++;
    }

    return 0;
}

[Prelude]

>Maybe it is reading the entries without a carriage return.
fscanf is delimited by whitespace, I simulated your program with a file of my own and it worked perfectly. Perhaps you could post a small chunk of the file that we can work with?

-Prelude

[Unregistered]

:0E00000040C0068450B0040188B00701BCC0A7
:080010008687050000B802001C
:080020000000F244F54305C3A2
:0C003000F744FA43F64AF84FF94147C084
:0400400086850500AC
:06005000B701036A5DC068
:10006000B7010C2400000A978684B76A0500F9617D
:0E007000F86FF764F66AFA63809205000200EA
:1000800020B00E010D2900B00AA40AAF01C0078BF1
:0C009000068C03B86161FB9801C351C2EB

[Unregistered]

there is some of my input file. Also, Hammer, when I try to implement your code, I get the following error:

warning C4047: 'initializing' : 'char *' differs in levels of indirection from 'char (*)[39]'

And I don't know what that means, if I remove the & sign, the error goes away but I still can't run the program.

P.S. Thanks for the help guys

[Hammer]

Oops, stupid typo on my part.

Change
>char *p = &a;
to
>char *p = a;

[Unregistered]

anybody able to make anything out of that input file sample i posted?

[Hammer]

Originally posted by Unregistered
anybody able to make anything out of that input file sample i posted?

Yep, but it's not pretty though.

          
          
                                  :0E00
                               000040C0
                             068450B00401
                         88B00701BCC0A7:0
                     80010008687050000B80
                2001C:080020000000F2
             44F54305C3A2:0C00300
              0F744FA43F64AF8
              4FF94147C0
                84:04
                  0
                  0
                  4
                  0
           0086850500AC:06
           005000B701036A5
           DC068:10006000B
           7010C2400000A97
           8684B76A0500F96
           17D:0E007000F86
     FF764F66AFA63809205000200EA 
     1000800020B00E010D2900B00AA
     40AAF01C0078BF1:0C009000068
       C03B86161FB9801C351C2EB

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Seriously, can you show me some sample output (what you want it to look like), and I'll help out.

[quzah]

What exactly is it you want? Do you want the hex value of the characters in the file, or do you want to display the information in the file as is? (IE: Is the stuff in your file supposed to be hex already and you're just trying to display it?)

Those are two entirely different things.

Quzah.

[Salem]

More stuff to throw into the mix whilst we figure out what is required.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

// format of line is as follows
// :llaaaaaaddddddddss
// :0400400086850500AC
// : is a colon
// ll is a byte indicating the number of dd data bytes
// aaaaaa is a 3 byte address in LSB order
// dd are the data bytes
// ss is the checksum of all the bytes which precede it
// ( ll+aa+dd+ss ) % 256 = 0
void decode_line ( char *line ) {
    int i;
    int sum = 0;

    printf( "Decoding %s", line );

    // skip the :, and the \n at the end of the line
    for ( i = 1 ; i < strlen(line)-1; i += 2 ) {
        int byte;
        sscanf( &line[i], "%2x", &byte );
        printf( "byte=%02x\n", byte );
        sum += byte;
    }

    printf( "Sum=%x\n", sum );
    printf( "Sum modulo 256=%x\n", sum % 256 );
}

int main ( ) {
    // example line, as you would get using fgets
    decode_line( ":0400400086850500AC\n" );
    return 0;
}

[Unregistered]

the characters have now been identified as hex values. From here, I want to get the decimal equivalent of each hex value and then sum up the rows. What I really want is the summation value of each row. So, let's take the first row for instance: the sum of the decimal equivalents of each hexidecimal number turns out to be 156.
(E+4+C+6+8+4+5+B+4+1+8+8+B+7+1+B+C+C+A+7)(base 16)=157(base 10)

Now, the code I have so far works great for the single line entry. When I want to read the entire file, some 100+ Hex values, i get nothing. I want to be able to add up line by line the decimal sums and display the totals individually. So far I can do it for one line, when manually entered into my code, now I want to do it so I can specify the file name, and the code will do the rest for me.

Now did I confuse everybody else as much as confused myself with that explanation? :-D