reading strings from file

Hi

I have this problem that I can't solve, I know it shouldn't be hard but
I'm not a good coder and I'm going crazy tonight...

I have a txt file that goes like this:

string1 string2
string3 string4

I'd like to read it and store string1 and string in array1 and string2
and 4 in array2

can u please advice me the right way to do this? I'm using C/unix

thanks a lot and I wish u all a great 2006


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re: reading strings from file

Giff a écrit :[color=blue]
> I have this problem that I can't solve, I know it shouldn't be hard
> but I'm not a good coder and I'm going crazy tonight...
>
> I have a txt file that goes like this:
>
> string1 string2 string3 string4[/color]

Do you meant:

string1<blank>string2<EOL>
string3<blank>string4<EOL>

?
[color=blue]
> I'd like to read it and store string1 and string in array1 and
> string2 and 4 in array2[/color]

You can use each line with fgets() and then extract the strings with
sscanf() and "%s %s". Make sure that sscanf() returns 2.

You can store the result in an array of strings with a fixed width (2D
array of char) or allocate the required space (malloc()) to store the
strings, and to store the addresses of the allocated blocks on an array
of pointers to char. This array could also be dynamically allocated. All
depends on the required flexibility.
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re: reading strings from file

Emmanuel Delahaye ha scritto:

[color=blue]
> Do you meant:[/color]
[color=blue]
> string1<blank>string2<EOL>
> string3<blank>string4<EOL>[/color]
[color=blue]
> ?[/color]

exactly, thanks for replying

[color=blue]
> You can use each line with fgets() and then extract the strings with
> sscanf() and "%s %s". Make sure that sscanf() returns 2.[/color]

I was trying with fscanf, now I tried the way u suggested with no results:

char *array1[2], *array2[2],buff[512];
FILE *f;

i=0;
do {

if ( fgets(buff,sizeof(buff),f)==NULL ) perror("fgets");
if ( (i = sscanf(buff,"%s %s",array1[i],array2[i])) printf("%d\n",i);
i++;
}while(i<2);

it opens the file correctly but then the sscanf returns 0, it gets stuck
during the second iteraction of the do-while

I'm sure I'm doing some really stupid mistakes, I'm not experienced,I've
been coding the whole day and this should be working tomorrow

thanks a lot



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re: reading strings from file

At about the time of 1/2/2006 2:14 PM, Giff stated the following:
[color=blue]
> Hi
>
> I have this problem that I can't solve, I know it shouldn't be hard but
> I'm not a good coder and I'm going crazy tonight...
>
> I have a txt file that goes like this:
>
> string1 string2
> string3 string4
>
> I'd like to read it and store string1 and string in array1 and string2
> and 4 in array2
>
> can u please advice me the right way to do this? I'm using C/unix
>
> thanks a lot and I wish u all a great 2006
>
>[/color]

The only what that I can think of is to read in the lines one at a time
using fgets and then using strsep to split the strings apart. Just out
of curiosity, did you write this text file or was it provided from an
outside source?

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re: reading strings from file

[color=blue]
> The only what that I can think of is to read in the lines one at a time
> using fgets and then using strsep to split the strings apart. Just out
> of curiosity, did you write this text file or was it provided from an
> outside source?[/color]

hi all, I made it work now! I'm not very good with array and pointers, I
mixed them up a bit

thanks a lot to everybody and again happy new year!



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re: reading strings from file

Giff <giffnews234@gmail456.com> schrieb:
[color=blue]
> char *array1[2], *array2[2],buff[512];
> FILE *f;
>
> i=0;
> do {
>
> if ( fgets(buff,sizeof(buff),f)==NULL ) perror("fgets");
> if ( (i = sscanf(buff,"%s %s",array1[i],array2[i])) printf("%d\n",i);[/color]

Where did you allocate memory for array1 and array2?
[color=blue]
> i++;
> }while(i<2);
>
> I'm sure I'm doing some really stupid mistakes, I'm not experienced,I've
> been coding the whole day and this should be working tomorrow[/color]

If you are using pointers, you should have a look at malloc or calloc.

Markus

re: reading strings from file

At about the time of 1/2/2006 3:17 PM, Giff stated the following:
[color=blue]
> Emmanuel Delahaye ha scritto:
>
>
>[color=green]
>>Do you meant:[/color]
>
>[color=green]
>>string1<blank>string2<EOL>
>>string3<blank>string4<EOL>[/color]
>
>[color=green]
>>?[/color]
>
>
> exactly, thanks for replying
>
>
>[color=green]
>>You can use each line with fgets() and then extract the strings with
>>sscanf() and "%s %s". Make sure that sscanf() returns 2.[/color]
>
>
> I was trying with fscanf, now I tried the way u suggested with no results:
>
> char *array1[2], *array2[2],buff[512];
> FILE *f;
>
> i=0;
> do {
>
> if ( fgets(buff,sizeof(buff),f)==NULL ) perror("fgets");
> if ( (i = sscanf(buff,"%s %s",array1[i],array2[i])) printf("%d\n",i);
> i++;
> }while(i<2);
>
> it opens the file correctly but then the sscanf returns 0, it gets stuck
> during the second iteraction of the do-while
>
> I'm sure I'm doing some really stupid mistakes, I'm not experienced,I've
> been coding the whole day and this should be working tomorrow
>
> thanks a lot
>
>
>[/color]

I would do something like this...

#define MAX_ARRAY 2 /* number of strings to store */
#define MAX_CHAR 64 /* storage size of each string */
#define MAX_BUFF 512 /* input buffer size */

char array1[MAX_ARRAY][MAX_CHAR];
char array2[MAX_ARRAY][MAX_CHAR];
char buff[MAX_BUFF];
FILE *f;

for (i = 0; i < MAX_ARRAY; ++i)
{
ptr = fgets(buff, sizeof(buff), f);
if (ptr == NULL) perror("fgets");
j = sscanf(buff, "%s %s", &array1[i], &array2[i]);
if (j != 2) perror("sscanf");
}


This is a guideline and it may or may not work correctly. The problem
that I see with your code is that you are defining the arrays as a
pointer. No storage has been allocated to hold the actual data. Your
usage of sscanf with the pointers is correct as far as I can tell, but
those pointers need to point to something. As it is, sscanf writes the
strings to random locations in memory. I'm amazed that you didn't get a
general protection fault or a segmentation fault when you ran this.

Also, arrays of strings are a little strange because a single string is
in itself an array of char, so to allocate an array of strings, you need
a 2 dimensional array of char.


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