removing/ignoring carrage returns from a file

[katipo]

Hi all,

I'm trying to pull data from a .dat file which is arranged like this:

F 26 5
F 64 4
F 29 2
M 12 3
M 40 1

Now I've got it pretty much working so far but the only issue I have is that there is a carrage return at the end of each line so when I output to the screen I get:

F 26 5

26 5
F 64 4

64 4
F 29 2

29 2
M 12 3

12 3
M 40 1

What I need to do is get the carrage return either not read or stripped from the output. so far my code looks like this:

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

//void bar(int number);                             // Layout
//void space(int number);                         // Layout

void main()
{
   FILE *rawdat;
   char sex;
   int age;
   int range;


   rawdat = fopen("H:\\sp3work\\SP3Project\\custsurvey.dat","r");
   if (rawdat == NULL)
   {
        printf("Cannot locate file");
   }
   else
   {
        while (fscanf(rawdat, "%c %d %d", &sex, &age, &range) != EOF)
                printf("%c %d %d\n", sex, age, range);
   }
        if (fclose(rawdat) == EOF)
                puts("Cannot close this file");

printf("\n\n\nPress any key to continue");
   getch();
}

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[Adak]

You can tell fscanf() to ignore newlines, but I believe it's easier just to add a char or digit to the statement, to "pull" the newline char off the input stream.

Although conceptually in C, the \n is just one char, we know it's actually two, so experiment and see which way your compiler see's it, by adding one of these:

..."%c", newline);

or

%c %c", newline);

or

%d", newline);

or

...%d %d", newline);

[katipo]

Thanks Adak,

I altered the line:

while (fscanf(rawdat, "%c %d %d", &sex, &age, &range) != EOF)

to:

while (fscanf(rawdat, "%c %d %d &c", &sex, &age, &range, &newline) != EOF)

and it worked (I actually did try this solution earlier but think I forgot to put the comma between &range &newline and didn't look too hard into why I was getting an error....)

[matsp]

Or simply add "fgetc(rawdat)" in the loop. Or fscanf("%c%d%d\n", ...)

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Mats