Problem opening a file in C

[Dan]

Greetings:

I was trying to read in a file using C, and I got a strange error, compling
it in gcc for Solaris:

Code segment:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

[E. Robert Tisdale]

Dan wrote:

I was trying to read in a file using C, and I got a strange error, compling
it in gcc for Solaris:

Code segment:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
.
.
.

char temp[10];
FILE* file = fopen("filelist.txt", "r");
int i = 0;
.
.
.

End Code segment

I got a message saying something along the lines of '(87) parse error before
int'. Anybody have any ideas as to what could be wrong?

[Martijn]

Artie Gold wrote:

Dan wrote:

FILE *file;
char temp[10];
file = fopen("filelist.txt", "r");
int i = 0;

In C89, which your compiler most likely implements, all declarations
must be at the beginning of a block; C99 (and C++) do not have that
restriction[1].

You could, for example, move the declaration of `i' above the call to
fopen().

Or you could make a new, unnamed, segment with a new scope, which will cause
i to be a temporary variable available only to that segment:

file = fopen(szFileName, "r");
{
int i = 0;

// the rest of the segment here
}

--
Martijn Haak
http://www.serenceconcepts.nl

[Steve Zimmerman]

goose wrote:

"E. Robert Tisdale" <E.**************@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote in message news:<3F**************@jpl.nasa.gov>...

Dan wrote:

I was trying to read in a file using C, and I got a strange error, compling
it in gcc for Solaris:

Code segment:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
.
.
.

char temp[10];

FILE* file = fopen("filelist.txt", "r");

int i = 0;
.
.
.

End Code segment

I got a message saying something along the lines of '(87) parse error before
int'. Anybody have any ideas as to what could be wrong?

?????
could you be less cryptic ? what exactly is that supposed to solve ?
the OP will have *NO* idea why that will work, and he will repost
about the other errors in his code that are similar.

goose,
helpfull today ?

Please post more of your program before the int part that the
compiler complained about. I tried the file open and it
compiled fine for me.

[Dan]

That fixed it. Thank you very much for your help.

"Artie Gold" <ar*******@austin.rr.com> wrote in message
news:3F**************@austin.rr.com...

Dan wrote:

Greetings:

I was trying to read in a file using C, and I got a strange error, compling it in gcc for Solaris:

Code segment:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
.
.
.

FILE *file;
char temp[10];
file = fopen("filelist.txt", "r");
int i = 0;
.
.
.

End Code segment

I got a message saying something along the lines of '(87) parse error before int'. Anybody have any ideas as to what could be wrong?

In C89, which your compiler most likely implements, all declarations
must be at the beginning of a block; C99 (and C++) do not have that
restriction[1].

You could, for example, move the declaration of `i' above the call to
fopen().

HTH,
--ag

[1] IMHO, to their detriment

--
Artie Gold -- Austin, Texas