Thread: Reading a file into a structure array

I am trying to write a program that reads a file into an array of structs. I decided to see if this aspect worked before expanding on the program. Here's the code:

Code:

#include<stdio.h>

struct analg {
	char word[6];
	char signature[6];
};


int main() {
	analg h[106];
	FILE *fp;
	int i;
	
	fp = fopen("list.dat", "r");

	if(fp == NULL) {
		printf("CANNOT OPEN FILE.  PROGRAM EXITING");
		return 1;
	}
	else {
	
		for(i=0; i<106; i++) {
			while(fgets(h[i].word, 6, fp){
				printf("%s", h[i].word);
			}
		}
	}

	fclose(fp);


	return 0;
}

list.dat is just a file that has a list of words, like

throw
timer
tones
tower
trace
trade
tread

Entered exactly like that. When I try to compile the program, I get several errors, and I was wondering what I was doing wrong.

You're missing a right parenthesis on your while loop. In addition, since this is C and not C++ do:

Code:

struct analg {
  char word[6];
  char signature[6];
};

int main() {
  struct analg h[106];
}

Or...

Code:

typedef struct {
  char word[6];
  char signature[6];
} analg;

int main() {
  analg h[106];
}

The for loop was simply to populate the array with the words in list.dat. The list.dat I have has about 106 words that I have to store in every location of the array. I had the printf statement in the loop to check what went into the array location. Once I knew the array had what I wanted in it, I was going to get rid of the printf statement entirely.