Thread: Reading a mixed Text and decimal file into an array

I am trying to read the following text file into an array containing the text data and an array containing the decimal data:

First 0.5
Second 0.39844
Third 0.39844
Fourth 0.5
Second_TCC_Locked 0.39844
Third_TCC_Locked 0.39844
Fourth_TCC_Locked 0.5
SS_Reverse 0.625

My intent is to do a strcmp() later in the code in order to compare user input to this file.

Code:

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

int main()
{
	FILE *fpin0, *fpout;
    int c, i;
	int count=0;
	float table_gain1[8];
	char table_gain0[8];
	fpin0 = fopen("TextArray.txt","r");
    /* open file 'TextArray.txt' for reading */
	while((c=fgetc(fpin0))!=EOF)
	{
		if(c=='\n')
			count++;
	}
	/* do something with count */
	printf ( "There are %d lines in the file\n",count );
	
	
	/* Set pointer to beginning of file: */
	fseek( fpin0, 0L, SEEK_SET );
	
	for(i = 0; i < count; i++)
	{
		fscanf(fpin0,"%s %d",&table_gain0[i], &table_gain1[i]);
	}	
	fclose(fpin0);
	
	fpout = fopen("TestRead.out","w");
	fprintf(fpout, "Mode	Gain\n");
	for(i = 0; i < count; i++)
	{
		
		fprintf(fpout,"%s\n",&table_gain0[i]);
	}
	for(i = 0; i < count; i++)
	{
		
		fprintf(fpout,"%d\n",&table_gain1[i]);
	}
	fclose(fpout);
	
}

From the looks of the output, I am guess it is a format issue but I have been trying different formats without any luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Output:

Mode Gain
F.S.T.F.5
.S.T.F.5
S.T.F.5
.T.F.5
T.F.5
.F.5
F.5
.5
1245004
1245008
1245012
1245016
1245020
1245024
1245028
1245032

First of all...

Code:

    /* open file 'TextArray.txt' for reading */
	while((c=fgetc(fpin0))!=EOF)
	{
		if(c=='\n')
			count++;
	}

Here after you open the file (which you donot check to see if it opened ok), you read each character from the file and increment the count. You are not counting each character, you are counting the number of lines there are. Your file contains one string and one double value per line.

/* close file, do something with count */
printf ( "There are %d lines in the file\n",count );

Here you donot close the file at all (not in the code you posted).
count is not the number of inputs read but the number of characters as mentioned previously. You then go on reading the file which is now at the end of the file. Therefore your next two loops will always evaluate false on the first iteration.

Here is how i would preceed with this program.

Variables
one array of an array of characters
one double array

open file for reading and check if open correctly

read each char array and one double into the required elements

open output file for writing and check if open correctly

write each char array and double to output file

close files.

>char table_gain0[8];
You need a two dimensional array to store several strings:
char table_gain0[8][20];

>fscanf(fpin0,"%s %d",&table_gain0[i], &table_gain1[i]);
Use %f for floats:
fscanf(fpin0,"%s %f",&table_gain0[i], &table_gain1[i]);

>fprintf(fpout,"%d\n",&table_gain1[i]);
Again %f for floats, and no adress of (&) when using fprintf():
fprintf(fpout,"%f\n",table_gain1[i]);