Thread: reading int into 2-d char array

I believe my problem is that fgetc reads chars and not ints so when I try to print the value it shows ascii value.

No, fgetc actually returns an int.

Code:

for(i = 0; i < MAXY; i++)
	{
		for(j = 0; j <MAXX; j++)
		{
			ch = fgetc(fp);
		}
	}

No, your problem is that you aren't doing anything with 'ch'. Sure, you're sticking something into it, but then what? You don't assign the value of ch to your array, so it gets overwritten the next cycle through in the loop.

Try something like:

array[i][j] = fgetc(fp);


Quzah.

Originally posted by quzah

Try something like:
array[i][j] = fgetc(fp);

It'd be better to store the return in an int of it's own, then check it for validity first, before moving it to the array. That way, if it's EOF, you don't put it into the array and confuse it with the real data.
Usual stuff:

Code:

while ((c = fgetc(fp)) != EOF)
    array[i][j] = c;
/* do something with i and j */

So, let me check this... if you have a file with this:
>123456
you want the int array to have this:
a[1] = 1
a[2] = 2
a[3] = 3
..and so on. Correct? (well, you might want a 2-d version of the array).

If so, you can do something like this:
>if (isdigit(c)) map[row][col] = c - '0';

This simply checks that c is a number, and then subtracts it from '0', the character constant that represents zero.

If this isn't what you want, just ask again.

Originally posted by lambs4
The thing is that fgetc reads integers as if they were characters and I want to store the integers in a 2-d character array. I'm having the same sort of problem as post here:
http://www.cprogramming.com/cboard/s...threadid=17314

expect for I'm using a 2-d char array.

fread simply reads one byte from the file stream. Period. If that byte is say... 65 decimal value, then you end up with the letter 'a' (or whatever it is, I don't feel like looking it up right now) if you cast it to a character, or if you simply treat it like an integer, it will be 55.

fread doesn _nothing_ to the data other than simply read a single byte from the file. That is all. Nothing more, nothing less.

It's up to you to ensure that the data is valid in the file.

If you create a text file that contains a single character '1', (without the quotes) fread will simply read the character value of '1', and return it to you. It does not return decimal one. It returns character value of one.

Quzah.

Originally posted by Hammer
So, let me check this... if you have a file with this:
>123456
you want the int array to have this:
a[1] = 1
a[2] = 2
a[3] = 3
..and so on. Correct? (well, you might want a 2-d version of the array).

If so, you can do something like this:
>if (isdigit(c)) map[row][col] = c - '0';

This simply checks that c is a number, and then subtracts it from '0', the character constant that represents zero.

If this isn't what you want, just ask again.

No, I want to store the 123456 in a 2-d char array so it be something like:

chArray[0][0] = 1
chArray[0][1] = 2
chArray[0][2] = 3

Here's the code I've tried writting based the information that quzah has given:

Code:

void loadMap(void)
{
	FILE *fp;
	int i,j;
	char ch,temp[2],buffer[786];

	fp = fopen("map01.txt","r");
	if(!fp)
	{
		printf("Failed to load map01.txt");
		getch();
		exit(1);
	}
	i = 0;
	while((ch = fgetc(fp)) != EOF)
	{
		if(ch == '\n')
			continue;
		temp[0] = ch;
		temp[1] = '\0';
		buffer[i] = atoi(temp);
		i++;
	}
	for(i = 0; i < MAXY; i++)
	{
		for(j = 0; j <MAXX; j++)
		{
			map[i][j] = buffer[i];
			printf("%d",map[i][j]);
		}
	}
	getch();
	fclose(fp);

}

lambs... a couple of points on your code:

>ch and EOF
fgetc() returns an int, so you must assign it's return to an int, not a char as you have done. This is important because EOF is an int with value of -1. If you assign to a char, you will loose the ability to test against EOF correctly.

>atoi()
For what your doing, you don't need to use atoi(), it's extra effort with no gain, imo.

Here's a version that does what you want (I think it does anyway, if not you can adapt it to suit). It doesn't do any bounds checking on the array, a thing which should do be done.

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>

int main(void)
{
    FILE    *fp;
    int     row, col, c;
    char    map[2][10] = { { 0, 0 } };

    if ((fp = fopen("map01.txt", "r")) == NULL)
    {
        perror("map01.txt");
        return(1);
    }

    row = 0;
    col = 0;
    while ((c = fgetc(fp)) != EOF)
    {
        if (c == '\n')
        {
            row++;
            col = 0;
        }
        else
        {
            if (isdigit(c)) 
            {
                map[row][col] = (char) (c - '0');
                col++;
            }
        }
    }

    fclose(fp);

    for (row = 0; row < 2; row++)
        for (col = 0; col < 10; col++) 
            printf("map[%d][%d] = %02x\n", row, col, map[row][col]);

    return(0);
}

/* The input file contains:
123456
789012

And the output looks like this:
map[0][0] = 01
map[0][1] = 02
map[0][2] = 03
map[0][3] = 04
map[0][4] = 05
map[0][5] = 06
map[0][6] = 00
map[0][7] = 00
map[0][8] = 00
map[0][9] = 00
map[1][0] = 07
map[1][1] = 08
map[1][2] = 09
map[1][3] = 00
map[1][4] = 01
map[1][5] = 02
map[1][6] = 00
map[1][7] = 00
map[1][8] = 00
map[1][9] = 00
*/