Thread: Reading functions

How would I begin to write a function that reads a data file (text) in and split it up into separate words?

Ok I don't understand any of that. Thanks though.

Haven't got anywhere so far. I've just been told I need to create a function that reads in data from a text file.

Let see if this help you

Code:

Delcare a file pointer <-- FILE * fp;
Open a file <-- Use fopen Ex: fp = fopen("test.txt","r");

While ( fgets(buf, sizeof buf,fp) != NULL)
/* this will read the file into the buffer line by line. */

Will that be able you to start it up. And note u havn't done any error checking. I will leave it to you.

this would help you
Files I\O

ssharish2005

The following works to read in the text file but also reads in punctuation, is there any way to exclude them?

Code:

#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<string.h>

int main(void)
{
  FILE *fp = fopen("file.txt", "r");
  char result[128];
  
  while (!feof(fp))
  {
    if (fscanf(fp, "%128s", result)<1)
    {
      break;
    }
    printf("Found word bit: %s \n", result);
  }
  fclose(fp);
}