Thread: Joining these code snippets

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    Joining these code snippets

    Hi,

    Im doing a project where I make a CSV reader in plain old C. Ive got some great code snippets through helpful users on the internet, but after experimenting I have found I have been unable to join the snippets into a working program.

    Basic code structure
    Code:
    #include <stdio.h>
    
    int main(int argc, char ** argv){
      int c;
      FILE * fp;
    
      if(argc < 2){
        printf("Usage:\n\t%s filename\n",argv[0]);
        return -1;
      }
    
      if((fp = fopen(argv[1],"rb")) == NULL){
        printf("can't open %s\n",argv[1]);
        return -2;
      }
    
      while((c = fgetc(fp)) != EOF){
        /* TO DO- Put your code to parse the csv here char by char
         */
        printf("%c",c);
      }
    
      fclose(fp);
      return 0;
    }
    This is my code that stores my CSV file contents and stores them in the memory:
    Code:
    #define MAX_LINE_LEN   1024*512  /* 1/2 mega byte, should be more than sufficient */
    .....
    
        char line[MAX_LINE_LEN];
       int len=0;
       int cnt_of_fields=0;
       char *p;
       while( (c=GET_A_CHAR_FROM_FILE(fp))!=EOF){
               switch(c)
               {
               case '"':
               case '\'':
                        /* parse a quoted string, ignore it for now */
                      break; 
               case ',':
                      ++cnt_of_fields; /* a comma signal end of previous field and begining of next fields */
                      line[len++]='\0';
                      if(len==MAX_LINE_LEN){
                               fprintf(stderr, "Line too long\n");
                               exit(-1);
                      }             
                     break;
               case '\n':
                    ++cnt_of_fields; /* a EOL is end of record, and at the same time end of field */
                      line[len++]='\0';
                      
                     /* make a copy of the line in the heap, note strdup or strcpy won't work in our case */
                    p = (char *)malloc(len); 
                    memcpy(p, line, len); /* now all the fields in the record are stored in p[ ] */ 
                    add_a_record( p );
                    break;
               default:
                    line[len++] = c;
                      if(len==MAX_LINE_LEN){
                               fprintf(stderr, "Line too long\n");
                               exit(-1);
                      }             
               }
       }
    This is my code that is designed to read the CSV data:
    Code:
    printf( "%s", line );

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    This is how I thought the completed code would look (It doesnt work)
    Code:
    #include <stdio.h>
    
    int main(int argc, char ** argv){
      int c;
      FILE * fp;
    
      if(argc < 2){
        printf("Usage:\n\t%s filename\n",argv[0]);
        return -1;
      }
    
      if((fp = fopen(argv[1],"rb")) == NULL){
        printf("can't open %s\n",argv[1]);
        return -2;
      }
    
      while((c = fgetc(fp)) != EOF){
    #define MAX_LINE_LEN   1024*512  /* 1/2 mega byte, should be more than sufficient */
    .....
    
        char line[MAX_LINE_LEN];
       int len=0;
       int cnt_of_fields=0;
       char *p;
       while( (c=GET_A_CHAR_FROM_FILE(fp))!=EOF){
               switch(c)
               {
               case '"':
               case '\'':
                        /* parse a quoted string, ignore it for now */
                      break; 
               case ',':
                      ++cnt_of_fields; /* a comma signal end of previous field and begining of next fields */
                      line[len++]='\0';
                      if(len==MAX_LINE_LEN){
                               fprintf(stderr, "Line too long\n");
                               exit(-1);
                      }             
                     break;
               case '\n':
                    ++cnt_of_fields; /* a EOL is end of record, and at the same time end of field */
                      line[len++]='\0';
                      
                     /* make a copy of the line in the heap, note strdup or strcpy won't work in our case */
                    p = (char *)malloc(len); 
                    memcpy(p, line, len); /* now all the fields in the record are stored in p[ ] */ 
                    add_a_record( p );
                    break;
               default:
                    line[len++] = c;
                      if(len==MAX_LINE_LEN){
                               fprintf(stderr, "Line too long\n");
                               exit(-1);
                      }             
               }
       }
        printf( "%s", line );
      }
    
      fclose(fp);
      return 0;
    }

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    you have 2 while loops one inside another

    first is correct - so the second one should be probably removed as being wrong one
    All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection,
    except for the problem of too many layers of indirection.
    – David J. Wheeler

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    More like this?

    Code:
    #include <stdio.h>
    
    int main(int argc, char ** argv){
      int c;
      FILE * fp;
    
      if(argc < 2){
        printf("Usage:\n\t%s filename\n",argv[0]);
        return -1;
      }
    
      if((fp = fopen(argv[1],"rb")) == NULL){
        printf("can't open %s\n",argv[1]);
        return -2;
      }
    
      while((c = fgetc(fp)) != EOF){
    #define MAX_LINE_LEN   1024*512  /* 1/2 mega byte, should be more than sufficient */
    .....
    
        char line[MAX_LINE_LEN];
       int len=0;
       int cnt_of_fields=0;
       char *p;
               switch(c)
               {
               case '"':
               case '\'':
                        /* parse a quoted string, ignore it for now */
                      break; 
               case ',':
                      ++cnt_of_fields; /* a comma signal end of previous field and begining of next fields */
                      line[len++]='\0';
                      if(len==MAX_LINE_LEN){
                               fprintf(stderr, "Line too long\n");
                               exit(-1);
                      }             
                     break;
               case '\n':
                    ++cnt_of_fields; /* a EOL is end of record, and at the same time end of field */
                      line[len++]='\0';
                      
                     /* make a copy of the line in the heap, note strdup or strcpy won't work in our case */
                    p = (char *)malloc(len); 
                    memcpy(p, line, len); /* now all the fields in the record are stored in p[ ] */ 
                    add_a_record( p );
                    break;
               default:
                    line[len++] = c;
                      if(len==MAX_LINE_LEN){
                               fprintf(stderr, "Line too long\n");
                               exit(-1);
                      }             
               }
       }
        printf( "%s", line );
      }
    
      fclose(fp);
      return 0;
    }

  5. #5
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    the problem is - the most of your variables declared inside the loop should be initialized outside the loop - like len

    so, obviosly, they should be declared outside the loop as well
    All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection,
    except for the problem of too many layers of indirection.
    – David J. Wheeler

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