Thread: Ok guys, I need help with 1 final program. PLEASE help!

Ok hopefully I wont get flamed or nothing for asking for help. Im sure you all saw my Pig Latin program (Thanks for the help Salem) and my recent one about factors. Well I got this one big final program to do. Here are the details:

Code:

FAMILY DATA
Design 7: write the algorithm and draw a picture of your structure

Write a C program that assigns family information to structures:  
	struct family      {
				char name [50]; 		/* person's name */
				char street [50]; 		/* street address */ 
				char csz [50];		/* city, state, zip */
				char relation [30];		/* relation to you */
				char birthday [20];		/* mm-dd-yy */
			         };
	struct family people[5];
or more if you have more immediate family members.
Have 5 members (include yourself; make someone up if you have to).
Read in the data from the file   a:\family.in   Create it in notepad to look like:
	Joe Redfield
	6220 Culebra
	San Antonio, TX 78228
	husband
	10-03-56					(and so on for each member) 

Output for each person the following information to the screen and to the file   a:\family.out   formatted as below:
	Carol L. Redfield				Relation: 	self
	609 Ridge View				Birthday:  	July 19, 1958
	San Antonio, TX 78253			Age:        	36

Now I understand the basic concept of it and how to "read" or "write" infomation to a specific place. But in class all we did as examples were numbers. I was practicing today and I cant do sentences at all. I just dont get it. I know I gotta write all my 5 family members information to a single Notepad but I dont get how the program will get individual information for the individual people.

I really, really hope someone can help me. Now Im not trying to get people to do my work for me. But I need some help with this. I already read about *pointers and it didnt help much at all. I hope someone can help. Even if its a simple little comment. Everything here is vital.

Please help. It would be very much appreciated.

Thanks

Ok, get this,My cousin and I spent from 8:00 PM last night to 6:00 AM this morning! This sucks. WE cant get crap to wrok. I looked at your guys suggestions and could only do so much. Heres my program below so hopefully you guys can critique it and help me out. Its really appreciated.

Code:

/* C program by C.Redfield for CS1410
 * show an example of using structures
 */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

 struct family {	    
                char name [50]; 		/* person's name */
                char street [50]; 		/* street address */ 
                char csz [50];		        /* city, state, zip */
                char relation [50];		/* relation to you */
                char birthday [50];		/* mm-dd-yy */
                char age [50];                  /*person's age */
               };

struct family PEOPLE[5];
struct family *field;
  
void main (void)
{
char linein[50];  

  FILE *in, *out;

  in = fopen ("a:\\family.in", "r");
/*  out = fopen ("a:\\family.out", "w"); */
  while ( !feof(in) )
     {
     fgets(linein, 50, in);
     
     printf("the line: %s", linein);
     }

/*  fgets(buffer, sizeof(buffer), in);  */
/*	sscanf(buffer, "%s %s %s %s %s %s"), *member->name, *member->street, *member->csz, *member->relation, *member->birthday, *member->age);*/

/* printf("%s\tRelation: %s\n%s\tBirthday: %s\n%s\tAge: %s\n\n",
       *member->name, *member->street, *member->csz, *member->relation, *member->birthday, *member->age); */
 fclose(in);
 fclose(out);

}