Thread: Scanning string arrays from file

Hey there, struggling learning this and first time poster here. Getting pretty aggravated trying to figure out a solution.

Let's say you need to read in some data from a .dat file. The file will start by giving you an arbitrary integer "n"that determines the size of a vertical array or n by n matrix.

For example, if your data file started out formatted like so:

4
labor;metals;plastics;elctrncs
Charlie;Snoopy;Lucy;Linus

BUT, the data file could also have several of these examples in the same data file one after each other where you would need to perform operations on them.

How do I scan in the character strings of data into two single arrays of one name per row?

Example, I want variable1 to be:
labor
metal
plastics
electncs

and variable2 to be:
charlie
snoopy
lucy
linus

When I try a while loop to fscanf to EOF, the %s into the array doesn't know when to stop inputting because it should be stopped based on the size of the first integer.
When I try scanning in with a for loop and counter to play the strings into the storage cells based on i<(integer-1), I only get gibberish or it crashes.

Any thoughts?

How many you pay to solve your homework?

It was just a simple syntax question on scanning a file. No worries, I got it figured out eventually. Guess this site is pretty worthless.

Originally Posted by SimonBones

It was just a simple syntax question on scanning a file. No worries, I got it figured out eventually. Guess this site is pretty worthless.

This site is for people able to read, understand, and follow the site directions.
Note: This requires some work on the poster part; so, this site is useless to a lazy newbie programmer.

http://cboard.cprogramming.com/c-pro...-homework.html

Tim S.

Originally Posted by SimonBones

It was just a simple syntax question on scanning a file. No worries, I got it figured out eventually. Guess this site is pretty worthless.

How can it possibly have been a syntax question.... you didn't post any code!