Thread: struct, enum and binary file read in

Hello eveyone, I have been tasked with writing a server side program. On "my" side I am to open a binary file and fill structs and enum. Here is what I was given as a .h file:

Code:

/*classes.h*/
typedef enum {MW, TR} days;

typedef struct {
     int hour, min;
} Time;

typedef struct {
     char Dept[5];
     int course, sect;
     days meet_days;
     Time start, end;
     char instr[20]
} sched_record;

Here is my problem, I have worked with structs and know how to load a "single" struct with a binary file. How would I load this struct plus the enum? I am not asking for code here. I will probably be back later on with that and the code I have written. I am trying to get the logic part down. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Sorry about that, I forgot to add what is in the binary file:

Code:

Math 102 10 M 0800 0850 Schulte
Eng  033  1 T 0930 1050 Shakespeare
Art  308  2 M 0800 1150 VanGogh
Anth 055 13 T 1200 1325 Kroeber
CS   125  2 T 0800 0850 Hoare
Eng  202 10 M 1000 1050 Chaucer
Chem 100  5 T 1100 1250 Pauling
Phys 395  2 T 1200 1250 Einstein
CS   125  4 M 1030 1120 Knuth
Math 420  2 T 0800 0950 al-Khowarizmi

> days meet_days;
You don't need to do anything extra (from what you already know).

The value stored in meet_days will be read/written just fine.

If what you posted is the actual contents of the file then it's not a binary file but a column-structured text file. So, for example, you won't want to use fread to read it. fscanf could pick it apart nicely. When you read the days character just translate it to the proper enum value. The times can be picked apart like so:

fscanf(fp, "%2d%2d", &hours, &mins);