Thread: inputting of files and storing to variables

I have to input text from a file and it will be in the following format

feet or meters
pressure etc (this shouldnt be too hard)

I'm thinking of using a for loop with peek() to look ahead so I can get that but my real problem comes when I get to the numers

(number,number,number)
(number,number,number) now these points are going to make a (number,number,number) triangle. I need to use pointers I'm pretty sure of that. I dont know how to store the numbers from the text file to a float variable. I can't remember how to use the pointers to keep this process up till I get to the end of the file.

I've looked through 2 books on it and several pages and found this forum. I hope someone can help me.

well, if you're writing the text file in plain text mode, use

fscanf(myfile,"%lg",&myfloat);

I'm not really sure if it's %lg, but try it with g, lg, e, le, f, lf and some more

or if you're writing it in binary, read four bytes and assign them to your variable


Good luck

Oskilian

thanks for the help. I'll give it a try and come back if I need some more help.