Leave Blank spaces in Array using fscanf C

[wilco]

Hi, I want to copy a csv file into an array using fscanf and keep the blank spaces in the csv file rather than just skip over them to the next number.

there are too many spaces in the csv file to fill them all in manually

I'm using C

any clues how i could do this??

thanks, heres a sample of my code

double ReadFromFile(FI LE *inFile)
{
double value;

fscanf(inFile," %lf,", &value);

printf("the value=%lf\n", value);

return (value);
}

[edwardrsmith]

Try using a loop, and whenever the loop goes through an iteration you add a space at the next available location in the array. This isn't perfect as it doesn't differentiate between spaces and say a new line character but it should get you closer to what you want.

On another note, it would help a lot if you used code tags around your code. It makes it much more readable.

Edward

[weaknessforcats]

The whole point of fscanf is to skip whitespace. All of the scanf()-like funcitons assume you know in the inout form,at ahead of time. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to code all that %c%d stuff.

If you don't know the input format, then don't a scanf()-like function. Instread, use a function that reads byte by byte so you can look at each byte an decide what to do with it.