reading int's and floats...

I need to read integers and floating point data from a file and calculate the mean and variance. I know how to perform the calculations, however I don't know where to start when it comes to reading in this data correctly. Any examples would be appreciated.
Thanks!
flight

It depends on how the file is formatted, but fscanf is a good option:

Code:

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if (fscanf(fd, "%d %lf", &i, &fp) == 2) {
  /* Good */
}

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using sscanf. The data file is only a sinle column of 10 integers and floats. Let me know if you think sscanf will work.
Thanks!
flight

>Let me know if you think sscanf will work.
Since sscanf has trouble reading from files, you'd have to use fgets first, but it should work. Of course, reading ten items with sscanf makes for an annoyingly long format string, so strtod might be a better choice.

Code:

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char *endp;
char *s;
double d;

if (fgets(buffer, sizeof buffer, fd) != NULL) {
  for (s = buffer; *s != '\0'; s = endp) {
    d = strtod(s, &endp);
    /* Use d */
  }
}

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The data file looks like this:
132.34
100
235
7859.03
444.31
332
298
545.77
676
33

I need to read this data in and then calculate the mean and variance of the data.
I'm just not sure which function in C is the most appropriate one to do read the data and store it in array 'value[m]'. I was thinking of using sscanf but I cant seem to get it to process the data correctly. Here's my code.

Code:

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int main()
{

 char file_name[100], line1[10] ;
 float b1[10], value[10] ;
 int count ;
 int update_counter, m, prework2a = 0;
 FILE *inp1 ;

  // prompt the user
  printf("Enter Filename : ")  ;

  // read the keyboard input
  fgets(file_name, sizeof(file_name), stdin);

  //remove the newline character from the filename
  file_name[strlen(file_name) - 1] = '\0' ;

  // open input file
  inp1 = fopen(file_name, "r") ;
  if(inp1 == NULL)       
  {
    fprintf(stderr, "can't open %s\n", file_name) ;
    exit(EXIT_FAILURE) ;
  }

  //read in the data from the file and store
  //in array value[m]
  for (m=1 ; m<=10 ; m++)
  {
      if(fgets(line1, sizeof(line1), inp1) != NULL)                {
    {
          sscanf (line1, "%d",b1) ;
          value[m] = b1[m] ;
          printf("value = %d \n", value[m]) ;
      }
  }
  fclose(inp1) ;
  return 0 ;
}

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got in or not. please see last post for code and data set.
Thanks!
Flight

We seem to be going in circles:

Code:

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while (fscanf(inp1, "%f", &value[m]) == 2 && m < 10)
  m++;

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That's really all you need now that I've seen the file. If you want you can differentiate between int and float, but there's really little point. An int cast to float is still the same value with no precision.

I'm being a bonehead...I got this part working...thanks for your input. My problem was not using the correct type for 'b1'. I fixed that and it's ok. I have a new problem where I first use the function 'fgets' to read how many words there are in the file. Then after I do that I use fgets again to read each data element again. The problem is, is that after the first use of 'fgets' I'm at the end of the file. So when I use 'fgets' the second time on the same file it doesn't read anything because I 'm at the end of the file. Is there a way to rewind or point back to the beginning of the file? Or should I just store off the data when I read the file using 'fgets' the first time?
Thanks!
Flight

thanks a bunch for your input...I should have been more patient with myself and just figured it out (like I did) before I posted. I'm still glad I asked the questions though. You showed me alternative methods that I will use in the future. Tanks again!
Flight