Breaking down a char array into a struct

[DcoltGaming]

Hi,

I have input such as the following:

DC12345 54I91L9

This input is fed into a char array using fgets. I then want to be able to split it into a struct.

I would therefore define a struct as:

Struct input
char firstCode
int secondCode
char fourthCode 
char fifthCode

If I had the codes:

DC12345 54I91L9
AB67891 23LN5TY

they would be split into the following sturcts:

input[0]
firstCode - DC12345
secondCode-5 
fourthCode-4I9
fifthCode-1L9

input[1]
firstCode- AB67891
secondCode-2
fourthCode-3LN
fifthCode -5TY

Could someone please help as to how I would go about feeding this input into the correct elements of the struct?

[laserlight]

It looks like the codes are of fixed length, so parsing should be a matter of copying the characters at the fixed positions, and then converting to int if necessary.

[DcoltGaming]

It looks like the codes are of fixed length, so parsing should be a matter of copying the characters at the fixed positions, and then converting to int if necessary.

Thank you, I thought along similar lines. Could you give me a idea of how I would go about doing this as I am new to C.

Thank you

[laserlight]

I would begin with a struct like this:

struct CodeSet
{
    char firstCode[8];
    int secondCode;
    char fourthCode[4];
    char fifthCode[4];
};

I'm curious as to why the jump from second to fourth, but actually you should have descriptive names for the members, not just name the members by numbers.

[DcoltGaming]

Thank you! How would you reccomend copying the characters?

[laserlight]

How would you reccomend copying the characters?

For the array of char members, use strncpy from <string.h>, remembering to null terminate the strings. For the int member, you can directly convert the single digit char to a digit integer, e.g., by subtracting '0'.