Text File to Struct

[Ronie Mendoza]

Hi,
Need some help reading a text file to struct

.txt file attached.

so what i need to do is read the name, the ascii picture, and rating to a struct.

typedef struct {
    char name[50];
    char picture[100];
    int  rate;
}pic

;

tried fgets with sscanf, but that reads each line of the file, which would be fine for the name but i would like to place the whole ascii picture to one array.

some guidance would be appreciated.

[Salem]

So you have this repeated

Jean Pajerek
  |\_____/|
  |[o] [o]|
  |   V   |
  |       |
 -ooo---ooo-
# 5

fgets() one line and store it in name.

fgets() lines in a loop.
If it begins with anything other than a #, store it in picture (you'll need a 2d array)
if it begins with a #, parse out the number and store it in rate

Simples - no?

[Ronie Mendoza]

ok will try that out.

so this can be accomplished with just fgets, sscanf, and a 2d array in the struct?

thanks.

[Salem]

> so this can be accomplished with just fgets, sscanf, and a 2d array in the struct?
Yes.

[Ronie Mendoza]

im having some trouble getting the next line into second array in struct

while (fgets(line, sizeof(line), pFile))
    {
        sscanf(line, "%[^\n]", art->name);
    }

it will keep overwriting the same array which i understand.

just don't know how to read next following lines up until # to next array in struct.

really noob at the algorithm.

thanks

[Salem]

You need some kind of state to tell you what you've done / or need to do next.

enum { DO_NAME, DO_PIC } state = DO_NAME;
while (fgets(line, sizeof(line), pFile)) {
    if ( state == DO_NAME ) {
        sscanf(line, "%[^\n]", art->name);
        state = DO_PIC;
    } else if ( state == DO_PIC ) {
        if ( line[0] == '#' ) {
            // it's the rate
            state = DO_NAME;  // start with the next picture
        } else {
            // it's a pic line
        }
    }
}

Finite-state machine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Ronie Mendoza]

Thanks Salem,

now just having trouble getting the picture filled in the 2d array

	while (fgets(line, sizeof(line), pFile) && i < 20){
		if(state == DO_NAME){
			sscanf(line, "%[^\n]", art[i].name);
			state = DO_PIC;
		} else if(state == DO_PIC){
			if(line[0] == '#' ){
				sscanf(line, "%s %d", buff, &art[i].rate);
				state = DO_NAME;
				i++;
			} else {
				for(r = 0; r < 20; r++){
					for (c = 0; c <80; c++){
						sscanf(line, "%s", art[i].picture[r][c]);	
					}
				}
			}
		}
	}

Thanks again for your help

[Salem]

            for(r = 0; r < 20; r++){
                for (c = 0; c <80; c++){
                    sscanf(line, "%s", art[i].picture[r][c]);  
                }
            }

This is all wrong.
You have a single line, so copy ONE line to ONE row of your picture data.

[Ronie Mendoza]

i think i got it,

	while (fgets(line, sizeof(line), pFile) && i < 20 && r < 20){
		if(state == DO_NAME){
			sscanf(line, "%[^\n]", art[i].name);
			state = DO_PIC;
		} else if(state == DO_PIC){
			if(line[0] == '#' ){
				sscanf(line, "%s %d", buff, &art[i].rate);
				state = DO_NAME;
				i++;
				r = 0;
			} else {
				sscanf(line, "%[^\n]", &art[i].picture[r]);
				r++;
				}
			}
		}

[Ronie Mendoza]

Hey salem,
could you help me sort out the names by most frequent using selection sort?

having trouble starting the sorting process.