Thread: Filling Array Of Structures From A File

I'm having a hard time discovering how to fill an array of structures from a file. This is what I'm trying to do.

I am going to open a file from the command line. In the file are a bunch of records some of them in the proper format and some not. Each of the records are on one line of the file, like this.

Sumpter, David: 12445: 100: 85: 70: 78: B+
Laporte, Leo: 23855: 88:88: 100: 76: B
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...and so on

Any ideas how I can get this type of data into an array of structures dynamically?

I don't need to handle all the records in the file just the first 100 valid records.

What's the question, exactly? How to determine whether a line of data is valid, or how to use = to assign bits to a structure, or what?

I have a file with a bunch of records in it. From the file I need to fill an array of structures. I have to do this dynamically.

Originally Posted by mesmer

I have a file with a bunch of records in it. From the file I need to fill an array of structures. I have to do this dynamically.

Then do so. (Note that if you only care about the first 100, the word dynamic is in question, as you really just need an array of 100 structures.)

How dynamic do you need to be? There can be an efficiency issue here. I would start out by creating perhaps 100 structures and then fill them from there if you need more then allocate another block of 100. Allocating for each recored would be time consuming and much work of the CPU.

What has been done so far as client code or implementation?