Thread: filling an array with a simple file

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    filling an array with a simple file

    Hello

    I have a file with these contents:

    7.25
    8.00
    10.00
    11.00
    12.00
    15.75
    25.00
    40.00
    85.00
    125.00

    How can I put them in an array of 10?

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    You want to store them in an integral array?

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    An array of 10 doubles, perhaps?

    arya6000, you might want to read:
    Lesson 8: Arrays

    Rather unfortunately, it appears that the tutorial on C file I/O is not correctly linked, or non-existent. Do you know how to read from a file?
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    Quote Originally Posted by laserlight View Post
    An array of 10 doubles, perhaps?

    arya6000, you might want to read:
    Lesson 8: Arrays

    Rather unfortunately, it appears that the tutorial on C file I/O is not correctly linked, or non-existent. Do you know how to read from a file?

    I know how to open and read from the file, but I don't understand how I can store each line in a different array.

    say if I have an array called:

    double rates[10];

    not sure how to put each line in the array.

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    Use a loop to read the floating point number on each line into an element in the array.
    Quote Originally Posted by Bjarne Stroustrup (2000-10-14)
    I get maybe two dozen requests for help with some sort of programming or design problem every day. Most have more sense than to send me hundreds of lines of code. If they do, I ask them to find the smallest example that exhibits the problem and send me that. Mostly, they then find the error themselves. "Finding the smallest program that demonstrates the error" is a powerful debugging tool.
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    Code:
    	
            while ( fscanf( fpointer, "%lf", &floatArray[i]) > 0 )
    	{
    		printf( "%.2f\n", floatArray[i]);
    		++i;
    	}
    Or you could use fgets to read from file and sscanf to extract the value.

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