Thread: Reading from tab-delimited file

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    Reading from tab-delimited file

    Hi everyone,
    I am currently trying to put together a program that runs dijkstra's algorithm, this is not the problem however. The program must first read in data from a tab delimited file, the format of the file is:

    string <tab> string <tab> integer

    This line is repeated with different values 29 times down the page.

    I was wondering if there is a function i could use to read this information in. I then want to store the info. in an array of a data structure.

    Thankyou for your time....
    Ben

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    Use fgets() to read each line
    Use strtok() to break the line up into each tab-delimited string, and copy those to your struct.
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