Thread: Need URGENT and EXTREMELY QUICK help.

Got two issues.

1) I got that in a text fie and I want to open it 1 by 1, while adding them to a variable. The variables are in a Structure, but when I try to print it, it either doesn't print it at all or just goes crazy and prints a lot of garbage. Any thoughts?

Damon,Johnny,35,0.275,LF,1,0.495,100,18

2) I need to know how long it took my program to compile, is there a function or something around that can help me with that??

Thanks in advance,

Crash...

PS. If possible I need this answer ASAP, project due this Wednesday. Thanks again.

Code:

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

struct fich
{
int num;
char name[10];
char last[10];
};

int leer_fichero();

int main(void)
{
leer_fichero();
getch();
}

int leer_fichero ()
{
    int er_dev = 0,i;
FILE *ficheroian;
struct fich r;
if ((ficheroian = fopen("yankees2.txt", "r")) == NULL)
{
printf ( "Error en apertura del fichero para lectura \n " );
er_dev = 1;
}
else
{
fread (&r, sizeof(r), 1, ficheroian);
while (! feof(ficheroian))
{
printf ("%s: %s: %d",r.last,r.name,r.num);
fread (&r, sizeof(r),1,ficheroian);
}
fclose (ficheroian);
}
return er_dev;
}

I'm not American, therefore some stuff are in Spanish, if you need any translation, just hit me with a message. Thank you.

What does this error mean?

37 C:\Documents and Settings\lecrash\Desktop\Fantasy Baseball\Untitled1.cpp cannot convert `fich*' to `char*' for argument `1' to `char* fgets(char*, int, FILE*)'

Originally Posted by matsp

fread() is not the right way to read your structure from a text-file. Perhaps using fgets() and sscanf() would work better.

--
Mats

Fread works fine to read structures, but as I understand, it isn't very portable.

I tried fgets (&r, sizeof(r), ficheroian); AND fgets (&r, 1, ficheroian);

But it doesn't work either way. It's my first time trying something like this in C, because I know how to do it in C++, but it's so complicated I can't seem to put my finger on it. :-s Suggestions?

Sorry for the delay on the response, had to refresh myself, haven't slept since Sunday. Anyways, about that temporary string how would I use sscanf() to extract my information from my text? Would it be sscanf(file); ?

I think I didn't explain myself as I should have. So here I go again. I've been doing a fantasy baseball simulator, and I need a roster that should be in a TEXT FILE and should be called in. Then I have to show, Last Name, Name, Age, Ave. etc. All of this has to be read and stored in a variable from my structure so I can call it later and still have it there. I can do everything but get the variables to store and print. In the example I used on my first post that Johnny Damon's stats and I was trying to print those, but only the first 3, but I couldn't so that why I came here. =D

I have never in my life used anything else but scanf and prinf. First time seeing all this, and since my programs needs it I've been learning along. So let me see if I get this. First off, I'll think I'll use the fscanf(), since I will input the information in the file, therefore I'll make sure the data won't be wrong. So, to use the fsancf what would I need? Just the file and then go fscanf and fprintf?

Btw, haven't thanked you for all your help... Thank you matsp. =D

PS I'm driving to work, though it's only like 5 minutes from my house. So I won't reply as fast as I've been doing.