Thread: Weird, cannot read from input file? Makes no sense....

Well, this is very weird.
The input file contains two integers on the first two lines then some other data.....
It is called 'input' and it is a txt doc.
It is in the same folder as my program.

Why does it fail to read in the integer correctly?

NOTE: I just started so I havent malloc'ed the struct array yet....

Thanks

Code:

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

struct info{
   char name[30];
   char month[30];
   int day;
   int year; 
};


int main(void){

   struct info* student;
   int numClasses=0, numStudents;

   FILE *ifp;
   
   ifp= fopen("input.txt", "r");
   
   //scan number of classes
   fscanf(ifp, "%d", &numClasses);
   
   printf("NUM CLASSES: %d\n", numClasses);





system("PAUSE");
return 0;
}

Well I know for a fact that it is not opening the txt file b/c I set numClasses to zero and the first integer in the input file is not zero, but the program still prints zero.

On any note, as i suspected, I just tested the input file and it failed to open, but the question is why?

Ok, all I can say is that I tried your code here and it worked. Have you looked in the .txt file to make sure the content makes sense?

Edit: BTW are you using an IDE or something? Perhaps it expects the file to be in a resource folder? You could also test to provide a full path with the file in fopen and see if that helps.

REALLY?! thats so weird.

lol

at least I can give myself credit for knowing how to read from an input file but WHY isnt it working on my computer?! I am 100% sure the input file makes sense..

I am going to try to restart my computer as if it had anything to do with it.

Is it possible that my laptop is slightly dumber then your computer?

I used the path to exact location and it still fails!

YES IT IS.

I figured it out,

My computer, for some reason, automatically added .txt extension to the filename....
Once I erased it, it worked.

I guess what happened was the compiler read it as "input.txt.txt"


thanks for ur help