Thread: Problem with reading files

Hi all,

I wrote a program in linux which parsed the headers of some data files I have. Now, I've tried to port it to windows, and everything seems to work except I can't seem to actually read the data! The data is in ASCII format, very simple text files. Why is this failing? This is my code:

Code:

int parseFile (char fileName[100], FILE *out)
 {
 int loc=1;	      //loc is the location of the curser in the string
 char dat[200];
 char str[RESULT_LENGTH];
FILE *inp;
inp = fopen(fileName, "r");
if (inp==NULL)
{
	printf("Could not open %s for reading.\n", fileName);
	return 0;
}


//get 'arg'th line of data and parse it into data.csv
fgets(dat, sizeof(dat), inp);
loc=loc+getinp(str,'\'',dat,loc);
fprintf(out, "%s,", str);			//print filename
loc=loc+getinp(str,'\'',dat,loc);	//search to date
loc=loc+getinp(str,'\'',dat,loc);	//print date
fprintf(out, "%s,", str);
...

it goes on for a while like that, but why does it suddenly not work?

If I instead just use fgets and then print the resulting string, I get ASCII garbage. . .



Thanks a bunch,
Dave

hmm, yes that loop does successfully print the file. So, now I have a starting point, I'll keep looking at it. Thanks! I'll repost if I am still stuck

Well, I've found that whenever my program executes a line with fprintf, nothing is written.
The fopen command works, but nothing is written to the file. When I finish the program, and try to open the file, it says "unable to read file". . . (but the file is not empty).

Why won't fprintf work?
(btw, the FILE pointer is not null)