Thread: Help with Silent Auction Program?

Hi, I m having a lot of trouble with this program I have to write in C. I have to read input from a file with a user inputted name for a silent auction.
The file contains data like this
5
4
100 500 250 300
1
700
3
300 150 175
2
920 680
8
20 10 15 25 50 30 19 23

The first number is the amount of items for sale, The numbers <10 are the number of bids per item. The numbers under are the bid. So for
1
700 It should say "Auction 2 was sold at $700.00" Since it s the second one with numbers under it. Please help

So far I have this

Code:

# include <stdio.h># include <stdlib.h>
# include <time.h>




int main () {


    FILE * ifp;
    ifp = fopen("auction.txt", "r");




    float winning_bid[5];
    int num_auctions, num_bids, max_bid=0, current_bid, next_bid, i, j,sum=0;




    fscanf(ifp, "%d", &num_auctions);




     //Loop set up based on the number of auctions
    for (i=0; i<num_auctions; i++) {




        fscanf(ifp, "%d", &num_bids);




        for (j=i; j<num_bids; j++) {




            fscanf(ifp, "%d", &current_bid);




                    if (current_bid > max_bid )
                            max_bid = current_bid;








    printf("Auction %d sold for $%d.\n", i+1, max_bid);
        }




        //keep a running sum of total made from auctions












    }




















}