Reading a text file into multiple nodes

Hi there,

I'm undergoing my first year of study in C programming. I was wondering if anybody could point me in the right direction for some homework I have.

I've been given a text file, which contains data that needs to be sorted into nodes and then arranged into a linked list.

So, say the data is in this format:

age: 32
day: Thursday
country: Australia
about: My favourite food is spaghetti
and I really like cats

Love Anna

age: 67
day: Monday
country: New Zealand

.. and so on.

At the moment, entire text file is opened and read as a string.
I need to read '32' and assign it to node->age, and so on for all the other values. I've written the structure for creating nodes etc. What I'm completely stumped on is how I tell the program what text to store where. In other words, how do I tell it to store '32', 'Thursday' and 'Australia'
Do I have to traverse trough the txt file until the word 'age:' is found? And if so, how do I then tell the program when to finish reading the text and move on to the next set of data for the next node?

Thanks in advance

Code:

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while not done
    read age
    read country
    read about
    ...figure out how you've decided an entry ends

    put all that in a new node
    stick that node on a list

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There are plenty of posts here about linked lists if you aren't sure how to make one. Try searching.

Read a line, see if it starts with "age:" or "day:" or "country:" ... if it doesn't, and it isn't blank, then stick it in your 'other' field, or whatever it's going to be called.


Quzah.