Input from file using arrays or struct?

[kensing]

I want to write a program that takes values from a text file, assigns them to different variables and then does different computations on those variables..

I've tried using fscanf/fgets and freadf, but can't get any of these to copy anything but the first line of text..

Also, I'm not sure whether it would make the most sense to sort them in an array? I have approximately 200 different values times 8 different variables

I've been looking around for a while, and can't seem to find the information I need to solve this problem.. Any help is greatly appreciated!

[DRK]

Have you tried this algorithm?

#define MAX_LINES 200
#define MAX_LINE_LENGTH 100

struct data_t
{
    // types of values inside the file
};

struct data_t data[MAX_LINES];
char line[MAX_LINE_LENGTH];
int lineNo = 0;
FILE *file;

file = fopen(filename, "rb");
if (file != NULL)
{
    while (lineNo < MAX_LINES && fgets(line, MAX_LINE_LENGTH, file) != NULL)
    {
        // parse data from line to data[lineNo] using sscanf
        ++lineNo;
    }
    fclose(file);
}

[kensing]

Thank you for the response, it seems very helpful, I'll look it over right now

[kensing]

I'm having trouble figuring out how to parse to data[lineNo] with sscanf. You don't have to do it for me, if you could just refer me to some explanatory text on the subject


Thank you in advance!

[DRK]

Suppose your input file contains lines of values of different types:
12 Mon 2.467
67 Wed 14.23
9600 Sat 0.129

Now you have to fill the struct with members of those types

struct data_t
{
    int value1;
    char day[4];
    double value2;
};

Parsing using sscanf:

while (...)
{
    sscanf(line, "%d %s %lf\n", &data[lineNo].value1, data[lineNo].day, &data[lineNo].value2);
    ++lineNo;
}

[kensing]

I get the following error messages

test2.c:25:1: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
test2.c:25:1: error: conflicting types for ‘file’
test2.c:23:7: note: previous declaration of ‘file’ was here
test2.c:25:14: error: ‘kampdata’ undeclared here (not in a function)
test2.c:26:1: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘if’


for the following code:

struct data_t
{
   ...
};
 
struct data_t data[MAX_LINES];
char line[MAX_LINE_LENGTH];
int lineNo = 0;
FILE *file;
 
file = fopen(kampdata.txt, "rb");
if (file != NULL)
{ ...

[DRK]

1. You have to put this code into a function.
2. Use quotation marks around filename kampdata.txt.

[kensing]

Of course, bingo

But how to access for example data.value1 in line 1?

[c99tutorial]

Assuming you read the first line into data[0], then the member value1 of line 1 is

data[0].value1

[kensing]

I got it all working now

Thus my last question related to this thread is this:
How do I choose to skip a piece of information in the file I'm reading from, using sscanf? For example, if my .txt file contains "a b c" variables, but only "a" and "c" is relevant to my program?

[Matticus]

You could always scan it in and just not use it.

[Click_here]

To read, say, an integer and not do anything with it - You can use the %*d in the scanf family

int apple, orange;
scanf(" %d %*d %d", &apple, &orange);

First integer is put into apple, second read but ignored, third in orange.

[Click_here]

Note that the '*' can be used with any input - %*c, %*d, ...

[kensing]

Thank you - your responses have been very useful!

[kensing]

How can I create a new array that contains the different values of data[lineNo].value1?

For example, I have data[1].value1 = 50 and data[2].value1 = 50 and data[3].value1 = 100

I then want to group the ones that have value '50'

What could that code look like?