Thread: reading in file question

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    reading in file question

    im reading in a file line by line as such:

    fscanf(fpin,"%d\t%d\t%s",&startpos,&endpos,name);

    the file is like this:

    0 100 john doe

    but for name, it only reads in "john",
    how would iget it to read in the entire thing?

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    nvm i got it, here it is for anyone else who needs it

    fscanf(fpin,"%d\t%d\t%[^\n]s",&startpos,&endpos,name);

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