Thread: Reading in data from Text file

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Originally Posted by matsp

It's probably easiest to just skip the first item on the cities row, by adding a dummy fscanf() before the for-loop that reads the city names.

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Mats

what do you mean by that ?

i think ive cracked it still testing this is what ive got

Code:

     for(x = 0; x < sizeof(place) / sizeof(*place); x ++) 
                            {
                               if(strcmp(place[x+1], pos[i])==0)
                               {
                               point[i] = x;
                               flag=1;
                               }
                            }
                            if(flag==0)
                            {
                               printf("\n Invalid place name please re enter: ");
                               i--;
                               wrong=1;       
                            }

x+1 pushes the array up 1 so it forgets bout -

sorry for poor formatting

what you think outputs seem good ect

well i use this twice

Code:

   for(i=0;i<2;i++) // loops round  twice allowing the input of 2 points
            {
                 if(wrong!=1)
                 {           
                    if(i==0){printf("\n Please enter your Start point: ");} // input first point 
                    if(i==1){printf("\n Please enter your Finishing point: ");} // input first point  
                    
                 }  
                    wrong=0;  
                    scanf("&#37;16s", pos[i]);
               size_t x;  
                          flag = 0;
                          for(x = 0; x < sizeof(place) / sizeof(*place); x ++) 
                            {
                               if(strcmp(place[x+1], pos[i])==0)
                               {
                               point[i] = x;
                               flag=1;
                               }
                            }
                            if(flag==0)
                            {
                               printf("\n Invalid place name please re enter: ");
                               i--;
                               wrong=1;       
                            }

i just want it in a method so i can just call upon it twice i have a book here on methods but its not really saying much

i think if i have to return somthing it will probs be the point array

lol i get mixxed from methods and functions i think its coz im doin java 2 ok haha lol uve simply expliand how to do them in a few lines where as a book just rambles on thankyou i shall attempt this now

right im using

Code:

void places()
{
}

program runs however if i was to put in London as a place which is a valid place it doesnt recognize it i call upon the function "void places()"

welll earlier i was messing around with stuff like

Code:

int places(char pos[2][16], char place[11][11], int point[2])
{
}

but i dont really understand functions well sooo it was really guessing messing around