Thread: Sorting integers and characters in C

I've been having trouble creating a sorting program in C. I can get input from a text file, output that information into an Array and sort it numerically, though I've been unable to take into account characters from a text file.

What I'm looking to do is check the text file for characters, if a character is found, to send this to a seperate array, I've been messing around with the isalpha() function, when I run the below source code, the program seems to think every character and integer is an integer.

Code:

int Seperate_Alph_Int()
{
	FILE *fp;
	fp = fopen("c:\\test.txt", "r");
	while (fscanf(fp, "") != EOF) 
	{
		if(isalpha(fscanf(fp, "")) != 0) {
			printf("Character");
			return;
		}
		if(isalpha(fscanf(fp, "")) == 0) {
			printf("Integer");
			return;
		}
	}
}

Is there a way to get this to work? If not is there a better way of doing this?

Thanks.

Sorry, I thought I was posting in the C board, this is a C question and not a C++ question

Code:

fscanf(fp, "")

I'm not sure what you want that to do. fscanf doesn't return a single character; if that's what you want, then you want to use fgetc instead.

Do you have two different types of data in your file? Are they related to each other (i.e., name and number for a single person together)? If so, you'd want to keep those related pieces of information together.