How to verify a blank line in a file?

[learningB]

I'm trying to verify that a file is in a very specific format.
It should have a single number (n) on the first line, the second line is blank, each of the following lines have "R" or "W" followed by a number that's within a given range. There should be n non-blank lines after the first.
The issue I'm having is with verifying the blank line. I check to see if fgets() of the line is NULL when the number of lines read is 1, but it seems to skip that line and gives the output "file formatting is invalid 4"

int reading = 1;
int n = 0;
                file = fopen(fileName, "r");
                if (file == NULL) // check if the file exists
                {
                    cout << "File not found" << endl;
                }
                else if (file != NULL) // if the file does exist
                {
                    char fileLine[100];
                    int numIsolated = 432e6;
                    int numLinesRead = 0;
                    if (numLinesRead == 0)
                    {
                        fgets(fileLine, 100, file);
                        sscanf(fileLine, "%d", &numIsolated);
                        cout << endl
                             << numIsolated << endl;
                        if (numIsolated > mmBytes || numIsolated < 0)
                        {
                            cout << "File not valid" << endl;
                            reading = 0;
                            break;
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            addArr[0] = numIsolated;
                        }
                    }
                    else if (numLinesRead == 1)
                    {
                        if (fgets(fileLine, 100, file) != NULL)
                        {
                            cout << "File invalid" << endl;
                            reading = 0;
                            break;
                        }
  
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        while (fgets(fileLine, 100, file) != NULL)
                        {
                            numAddresses = addArr[0];
                            char lineStr[100];
                            sscanf(fileLine, "%s %d", lineStr, &numIsolated);
                            cout << endl
                                 << string(lineStr) << endl;
                            cout << numIsolated << endl;
                            if (numIsolated > mmBytes || numIsolated < 0)
                            {
                                    cout << "File contains invalid address" << endl;
                                    reading = 0;
                            }
                            else
                            {
                                if (string(lineStr) != "R" && string(lineStr) != "W")
                                {
                                    cout << "file formatting is invalid 2" << endl;
                                    reading = 0;
                                    break;
                                }
                                else
                                {
                                    n++;
                                    addArr[n] = numIsolated;
                                    printf("\naddArr[%d] = %d", n, addArr[n]);
                                    if (string(lineStr) == "R")
                                    {
                                        addArr[n + numAddresses] = 1;
                                        printf("\naddArr[%d] = %d", n + numAddresses, addArr[n + numAddresses]);
                                    }
                                    else
                                    {
                                        addArr[n + numAddresses] = 2;
                                        printf("\naddArr[%d] = %d", n + numAddresses, addArr[n + numAddresses]);
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                            numLinesRead++;
                            numIsolated = 432e6;
                        }
                    }
                    if (reading == 1)
                    {
                        if (n != 0)
                        {
                            if (n != numAddresses)
                            {
                                cout << "n = " << n << endl
                                     << "numAddresses = " << numAddresses << endl
                                     << "file formatting is invalid 3" << endl;
                                reading = 0;
                            }
                            else if (n == numAddresses)
                            {
                                validFile = 1;
                                cout << endl
                                     << "n = " << n << endl
                                     << "numAddresses = " << numAddresses << endl
                                     << "arr[1] = " << addArr[1];
                            }
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            cout << "file formatting is invalid 4" << endl;
                            reading = 0;
                        }
                    }

                }

[laserlight]

Use std::getline to read into a std::string instead, and then try to parse that string according to what should be on the line at that point.

[Salem]

A blank line returned by fgets() will consist of just a "\n".

Why are you mixing C and C++?

[learningB]

@laserlight, I have tried that but am still having the same issue

[laserlight]

What is your current code?

[learningB]

@Salem, I tried checking for "\n" as well but got the same result.

And it's because this is my first project using either language so I'm not too familiar with the differences

[learningB]

It is very similar to the original but I have replaced fgets() with getline().
It is interesting because whenever I run the file through the simpler code below, it does print the "\n" character.


Simple test code:

while (!feof(file))
    {
        characters = getline(&buffer, &bufsize, file);
        if (string(buffer) == "\n")
        {
            printf("You typed:\\n");
        }
        printf("%zu characters were read.\n", characters);
        printf("You typed: '%s'\n", buffer);
    }

Current code:

int reading = 1;
                int n = 0;
                file = fopen(fileName, "r");
                if (file == NULL) // check if the file exists
                {
                    cout << "File not found" << endl;
                }
                else if (file != NULL) // if the file does exist
                {
                    char fileLine[100];
                    int numIsolated = 432e6;
                    int numLinesRead = 0;
                    if (numLinesRead == 0)
                    {
                        char *buffer;
                        size_t bufsize = 32;
                        size_t characters;

                        buffer = (char *)malloc(bufsize * sizeof(char));
                        characters = getline(&buffer, &bufsize, file);
                        sscanf(buffer, "%d", &numIsolated);
                        cout << numIsolated << endl;
                        if (numIsolated > mmBytes || numIsolated < 0)
                        {
                            cout << "File not valid" << endl;
                            reading = 0;
                            break;
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            addArr[0] = numIsolated;
                        }
                    }
                    else if (numLinesRead == 1)
                    {
                        char *buffer;
                        size_t bufsize = 32;
                        size_t characters;

                        buffer = (char *)malloc(bufsize * sizeof(char));
                        characters = getline(&buffer, &bufsize, file);
                        if (string(buffer) != "\n")
                        {
                            cout << "File invalid" << endl;
                            reading = 0;
                        }
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        while (!feof(file))
                        {
                            numAddresses = addArr[0];
                            char *buffer;
                            size_t bufsize = 32;
                            size_t characters;

                            buffer = (char *)malloc(bufsize * sizeof(char));
                            characters = getline(&buffer, &bufsize, file);
                            char lineStr[100];
                            sscanf(buffer, "%s %d", lineStr, &numIsolated);
                            cout << endl
                                 << string(lineStr) << endl;
                            cout << numIsolated << endl;
                            if (numIsolated > mmBytes || numIsolated < 0)
                            {
                                if (numLinesRead != 1)
                                {
                                    cout << "File contains invalid address" << endl;
                                    reading = 0;
                                    break;
                                }
                            }
                            else
                            {
                                if (string(lineStr) != "R" && string(lineStr) != "W")
                                {
                                    cout << "file formatting is invalid 2" << endl;
                                    reading = 0;
                                    break;
                                }
                                else
                                {
                                    n++;
                                    addArr[n] = numIsolated;
                                    printf("\naddArr[%d] = %d", n, addArr[n]);
                                    if (string(lineStr) == "R")
                                    {
                                        addArr[n + numAddresses] = 1;
                                        printf("\naddArr[%d] = %d", n + numAddresses, addArr[n + numAddresses]);
                                    }
                                    else
                                    {
                                        addArr[n + numAddresses] = 2;
                                        printf("\naddArr[%d] = %d", n + numAddresses, addArr[n + numAddresses]);
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                            numLinesRead++;
                            cout << endl
                                 << numLinesRead << endl;
                            numIsolated = 432e6;
                        }
                    }
                    if (reading == 1)
                    {
                        if (n != 0)
                        {
                            if (n != numAddresses)
                            {
                                cout << "n = " << n << endl
                                     << "numAddresses = " << numAddresses << endl
                                     << "file formatting is invalid 3" << endl;
                                reading = 0;
                            }
                            else if (n == numAddresses)
                            {
                                validFile = 1;
                                cout << endl
                                     << "n = " << n << endl
                                     << "numAddresses = " << numAddresses << endl
                                     << "arr[1] = " << addArr[1];
                            }
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            cout << "file formatting is invalid 4" << endl;
                            reading = 0;
                        }
                    }
                }

[laserlight]

You cannot use getline because getline operates on an istream, not a FILE*.

But why are you using C utitilies in a C++ program?

For example, here is a program that verifies that each line in a file is a blank line:

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>

int main()
{
    std::ifstream input("input.txt");
    bool all_blank = true;
    int line_no = 0;
    std::string line;
    while (getline(input, line))
    {
        ++line_no;
        if (!line.empty())
        {
            all_blank = false;
            std::cout << "Line #" << line_no << " is not blank!" << std::endl;
        }
    }
    if (all_blank)
    {
        std::cout << "All lines in the file are blank." << std::endl;
    }
}