file won't open with VC++

Quote:

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Originally Posted by vart

fgets stores the strings including '\n' character at the end
fopen could not process such strings

you need to get rid of the \n char

You could find several ways to do it in the FAQ

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I've spent a few hours reading(and trying to understand) the FAQ, and I found this:

Code:

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if (fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), stdin))
  {
    strtok(buf, "\n");  /* Remove the newline character */
    walker(root, buf);
  }

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So I tried it in my call to fgets:

Code:

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while((fgets(LineData[counter1].storefilename, LINELENGTH, p_openfile) != NULL) && (counter1 < NUMBEROFFILES))
    {
      strtok(LineData[counter1].storefilename, "\n");
        counter1++;       
    lastfilenumber1 = counter1;
    }

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But I still can't open the files. I still get the same "invalid argument" messages. :)

EDIT: Ok, I'm doing a search of the forum, and it appears I need to use strchr etc to scan the string for the newline, and then remove it somehow. I will give that a go.

EDIT: Tried, this, but still doesn't work.

Code:

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while((fgets(LineData[counter1].storefilename, LINELENGTH, p_openfile) != NULL) && (counter1 < NUMBEROFFILES))
    {
                if((p_newline = strchr(LineData[counter1].storefilename, '\n')) != NULL)
                        *p_newline = '\0';

        counter1++;       
                lastfilenumber1 = counter1;
    }

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Maybe if I can find the length of the string, and put a \0 at (length-1). I'll try that.

EDIT: Ok, here's something that almost works.

Once I've used fgets to read the filenames into an array, I then use sscanf to read those names into another array

Code:

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for(counter1 = 0; counter1 < lastfilenumber1; counter1++)
        {
                sscanf(LineData[counter1].storefilename, "%s", &LineData[counter1].storefilename2);
        }

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For some reason, sscanf doesn't read the newline, so when I use fopen on the second array, all the files open, except for the very last one. I'll can live with that for now. :D

EDIT:

Ok, finally got this to work:

Code:

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if((p_newline = strchr(LineData[counter1].storefilename, '\n')) != NULL)
                        *p_newline = '\0';

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MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

C IS AWESOME! :D