Thread: problem reading mixed data...

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    problem reading mixed data...

    I can't figure out how to read mixed integer and float data from a text file. I would like to use sscanf if possible but can't figure out how to read in the numerical data.

    An example of the file looks like this:

    Billy 6.0 8.0
    Bob 20 40
    Maynard 0.69 0.98
    Bubba 0 10
    Bunch 1 7


    I would like to be able to write the numerical data out to a file in floating point format and ignore the names.

    Thanks in advance!

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    Read it all in as float values. You can use sscanf to safely read and convert "60" into a float just fine.
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    Do you strictly need to read in ints as ints?
    Code:
    scanf("%s%f%f", name, &value1, &value2);
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    Code:
    fgets(temp,strlen(temp),stdin);
    
        sscanf(temp,"%s %f %f",name,&num1,&num2);

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