Need help with files

[IxTanGxI]

int main()
{
	int index, points[6];
	char input[250], output[250];
   FILE *ifp, *ofp;
	
	printf("Which file would you like to read from?\n");
	scanf("%s", input);

	
	printf("Which file would you like to write too?\n");
	scanf("%s", output);
	
	
	
	//Opens the output file to be written too
	ifp = fopen(output, "w");	
	//Opens the input file too be read from
	ofp = fopen(input, "r");
	

	return 0;
	
}

This is what I currently have. What my program needs to do is open a file that the user chooses and then go through it and make a calculation. A sample input file looks like this:

4
Chris_Webber F 978 447 252 68 34
Allen_Iverson G 2302 299 597 180 9
Grant_Hill F 1317 318 220 97 28
Steve_Francis G 1663 450 547 112 28

The number of players at the top and then there name, position, and then stats(which I will need to do a calculation with later. How would I go about programming this. I am not asking anyone to hand feed me code, I just want an idea of where to start. Thanks in advance

[IxTanGxI]

Please Help.

[cwr]

Use fgets to read each line, then sscanf to get the data from the resulting string.

By the way, it's a bit confusing to label your Input file descriptor ofp and your Output file descriptor ifp

[dwks]

And you should probably close your files with fclose().

[cwr]

And you should probably close your files with fclose().

Perhaps, but the standard guarantees that all open streams will be closed on termination.

The OP's code should check that the calls to fopen were successful, also.

[dwks]

Perhaps, but the standard guarantees that all open streams will be closed on termination.

That's why I said "probably". It's a good habit to get into (I've had more than one obscure bug with unclosed filehandles).