Thread: read text file, convert character numbers to int?

Hi!
I wrote a small code, that reads contents of the file and puts it into multidimensional array. This is the file:

Code:

1:Name1:43
2:Name2:84
3:Name3:53
4:Name4:14
5:Name5:12
6:Name6:63
7:Name7:41
8:Name8:31
9:Name9:51
10:Name10:17

I have two problems:

1. I need to separate each line into 3 variables, the separation character is :. for example I read the line and put values(1, Name1, 43) in 3 different variables. I need something like php explode(); function, but I guess I'll have to write it by myself.. Maybe I could use somehow fscanf to acomplish this?

2. I have no problem reading the first character on each line and casting it as an int, so I could use it's value for adding or dividing, but when I read the last line, it's 10, that take 2 blocks in my array, how can I cast them as an integer!?

Code:

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>


int main() {
  char c[60000];  
  int data[10][400], line_pos=0, nline=0, i=0, ch;
	
  FILE *fd;
  fd = fopen("file", "r"); 

	memset(data, 0, sizeof(data));

 	while((ch=getc(fd)) != EOF){
		data[nline][line_pos] = ch;
		line_pos++;

		if(ch == 0x0a){
			line_pos=0;
			nline++;
		}		
 	}

	

    fclose(fd); 
    return 0;

Basicly I need to read the first and the last variable from each line of the file and put them into int variable, any suggestions please? thank you!

Step 1 - read each line
fgets( buff, sizeof buff, fileptr );

Step 2 - parse the buffer

Code:

char buff[BUFSIZ];
while ( fgets( buff, sizeof buff, fileptr ) != NULL ) {
  if ( sscanf( buff, "%d:%[^:]:%d", &num1, name, &num2 ) == 3 ) {
    // success
  } else {
    // error
  }
}

Probably, though making name also BUFSIZ in length, then dealing with it separately is one way of avoiding the issue.