reading a textfile and storing the information into a structure array?

say I have a text file that follows the format:

student last name student number student grade

for example:

smith 17892 82
peterson 12891 79
mcdonald 97022 93

and so on, and i want to read the text file that contains this data and then store it into structure array with data types

char student_name
char student_id
int student_grade

how can I do this? thanks.

Well, what part is stumping you or have you done nothing?

And the problem is what exactly? (Reading? Reading from a file? Storing a string into a char array?) And I guarantee you that student_name and student_id are not of type char.

i've created the structure lol. i dont know how to read or store though :|.

Do you know how you would do it if people were typing at the keyboard vs. reading from a file?

yeah I do.

I think tabstop is saying show us how you would do it in the case of someone sitting and typing it in, and we'll go from there.

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Originally Posted by rags_to_riches

I think tabstop is saying show us how you would do it in the case of someone sitting and typing it in, and we'll go from there.

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Especially since the difference between the two consists mainly of the letter "f".

Yes indeed :)

i got it guys, i found out how to use the fopen fscan stuff and its cool now. thanks anyway.