Reading text file line by line and acting on each line...

Hi,

Basically I'm trying to read a text file into a C program line by line and then act on each line.

The text file I am reading looks like this:

Code:

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RUN 5
SET 1 1
RUN 5
SET 2 1
RUN 5
SET 1 0
RUN 3
SET 3 0
RUN 2
SET 2 0
RUN 5

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Each line can have one of two formats; either SET 3 1, which is setting node 3 equal to 1. Or Run 5 which means run 5 times.

I am trying to read in a line, store the 3 letter word (set or run) as a string, if it is "Set" then storing the two numbers that follow, if it is "Run" then storing the one number that follows.

The stored info can then be used to do the necessary processes.

Any ideas?

I've already had a play around with fgets, fread and fscanf but to no avail. Here is a piece of code I used earlier in the program to read in data from a slightly different text file and store it in structures:

Code:

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    typedef struct
        {
        char GateType[4];
        int OutputNode;
        int InputNode1;
        int InputNode2;
        } LogicGate;

...

while(fscanf(fp, "%s %d %d %d", &LogicGates[index].GateType, &LogicGates[index].OutputNode, &LogicGates[index].InputNode1, &LogicGates[index].InputNode2) == 4)

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This worked fine and was easy because of the uniformity of that file..
AND 6 1 3
XOR 5 3 4
AND 7 5 2
XOR 8 6 7
where each line had four components.

Is there a way of modifying this to suit? or do I need to do something completely different?

Thanks,

Read a word. scanf %s does that.
Depending on the word(RUN,SET), you know how many more input to read.

Eg.

Code:

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char command[21];
while( scanf("%20s",command) != EOF ) {
  if( strcmp(command,"RUN") == 0 ) {        // RUN
        ret =  scanf("%d %d",&node,&value);
  } else if( ... ) {

  }
}

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IF you know that the format isn't going to get too crazy from here, you can just do

Code:

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fscanf("%s %d %d", this, &that, &theother);

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because scanf will just simply not load in a second number if it's not there.

OR, you can read in a line with fgets, parse the word at the front of the line, and then call an appropriate sscanf depending on what that word is.

Quote:

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because scanf will just simply not load in a second number if it's not there.

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Is it? But i don't think so.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Bayint Naung

Is it? But i don't think so.

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Is it what?
data.txt

Code:

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SET 10 4
RUN 5
SET 3 3

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check.c

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>

int main(void) {
    FILE *fp;
    char word[4];
    int first, second;
    fp = fopen("data.txt", "r");
    while (fscanf(fp, "%s %d %d", word, &first, &second) > 0) {
        printf("Word: %s  First: %d  Second: %d\n", word, first, second);
    }
    fclose(fp);
    return 0;
}

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Run and be amazed.

Nothing to be amazed.
It works since scanf() %d stops when encountering letter on next line, and it pushes back (ungetc()). the character.
If next line is allowed to start with number(not OP requirement though), the code won't work.
Edit: ok provided that you did mention,
>IF you know that the format isn't going to get too crazy from here, you can just do
your solution is simpler for OP if format is simple.

Thankyou so much, both of you.

It works a treat :)

Since your file is line oriented, I would go with a safer solition just in case a line contains wonkiness.

Code:

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#define BUF_SIZE 255
char *pnt, buffer[BUF_SIZE + 1];
int got;
char cmd[11];
...
for (...) {
    if (!fgets(buffer, BUF_SIZE, fh))
        break;
    if (!(pnt = strchr(buffer, '\n'))) {
        printf("No end-of-line detected. Too long for buffer or file terminates prematurely.\n");
        exit_slow();
        }
    *pnt = '\0';
    got = sscanf(buffer, "%.10s %d %d %d", cmd, &num1, &num2, &num3);
    ...
    }

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I'd have to check whether %.10s is the correct way to limit the number of bytes saved into cmd... But you could do that.
Then you check if got has whatever number of parameters expected... num1, num2, num3 values may be invalid based on that.