routine to return number of rows and columns in a matrix

kilter

Anyone know of a routine that will return the number of rows and
columns in a matrix?

Aug 23 '06 #1

Nils O. Selåsdal

kilter wrote:

Anyone know of a routine that will return the number of rows and
columns in a matrix?

As C has no matrices, you should explain further what you mean
and want.

Aug 23 '06 #2

kilter

Nils O. Selåsdal wrote:

kilter wrote:

Anyone know of a routine that will return the number of rows and
columns in a matrix?

As C has no matrices, you should explain further what you mean
and want.

Thanks for your quick reply. The idea is that I open a file that has
numerical data in a form of a matrix but I don't know a priori the
number of columns and rows of this file. I want to know the number of
rows and columns of that data matrix, after I read it and store it as a
matrix in C, in order to apply operations to its entries.

I am a novice really and your help is very much appreciated.

Thank you

Aug 23 '06 #3

Bill Reid

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Nils O. Selåsdal wrote:

kilter wrote:

Anyone know of a routine that will return the number of rows and
columns in a matrix?

As C has no matrices, you should explain further what you mean
and want.

The idea is that I open a file that has
numerical data in a form of a matrix but I don't know a priori the
number of columns and rows of this file. I want to know the number of
rows and columns of that data matrix, after I read it and store it as a
matrix in C, in order to apply operations to its entries.

This will count all the rows and columns in an OPENED FOR READING
COMMA-SEPARATED TEXT data file where the file consists of nothing
else but data rows (if your file has a different format, well, you'll have
to
modify it in some way):

#define LINEMAX 512

unsigned char_idx=0;
unsigned line_length,num_cols=0,num_rows=0;

fgets(line,LINEMAX,fl_strm);
num_rows++;

line_length=strlen(line);
while(char_idx<line_length) {

if(line[char_idx]=='\n'||'\0') {
num_cols++;
break;
}

if(line[char_idx]==',') num_cols++;

char_idx++;
}

while((fgets(line,LINEMAX,fl_strm))!=NULL)
num_rows++;

---
William Ernest Reid

Aug 23 '06 #4

Schraalhans Keukenmeester

kilter wrote:

Nils O. Selåsdal wrote:

>kilter wrote:

>>Anyone know of a routine that will return the number of rows and
columns in a matrix?

As C has no matrices, you should explain further what you mean
and want.

Thanks for your quick reply. The idea is that I open a file that has
numerical data in a form of a matrix but I don't know a priori the
number of columns and rows of this file. I want to know the number of
rows and columns of that data matrix, after I read it and store it as a
matrix in C, in order to apply operations to its entries.

I am a novice really and your help is very much appreciated.

Thank you

It depends. If the numerical data is actually stored as a (ascii or
similar) matrix, and each value is separated by spaces, tabs, what have
you, and rows are written line by line you read in one number at a time,
keep track and signal the EOL.
If it's in some binary/structured form you probably want to read in a
structure like that all at once.

If it's just a consecutive row of numbers in a flat file, you may have
to look for delimiter values in the data ending each row, and if these
aren't there you can't be sure how the matrix looks like, as long as
their are multiple m,n where m * n satisfies the total count of numbers
read.

You could have a look at sscanf(), scanf() functions on how to read in
data in a formatted way. Maybe browsing the c-faq, in particular chapter
12 http://www.c-faq.com/stdio/index.html isn't such a bad idea, it must
have some useful stuff on reading in date from files (or basically any
data stream, as C treats them all the same)

For a good primer on C, Kernighan and Ritchie still is considered of
unparallelled value by many, I my self have learnt(ed?) a great deal of
(the little bit of) what I know from
http://publications.gbdirect.co.uk/c_book/
Pretty dated stuff, but clear, concise and to the point nonetheless.

HTH
Sh.

Aug 23 '06 #5

George

Thanks very much for your replies, they are great!

Regards,

George
Schraalhans Keukenmeester wrote:

kilter wrote:

Nils O. Selåsdal wrote:

kilter wrote:
Anyone know of a routine that will return the number of rows and
columns in a matrix?
As C has no matrices, you should explain further what you mean
and want.

Thanks for your quick reply. The idea is that I open a file that has
numerical data in a form of a matrix but I don't know a priori the
number of columns and rows of this file. I want to know the number of
rows and columns of that data matrix, after I read it and store it as a
matrix in C, in order to apply operations to its entries.

I am a novice really and your help is very much appreciated.

Thank you

It depends. If the numerical data is actually stored as a (ascii or
similar) matrix, and each value is separated by spaces, tabs, what have
you, and rows are written line by line you read in one number at a time,
keep track and signal the EOL.
If it's in some binary/structured form you probably want to read in a
structure like that all at once.

If it's just a consecutive row of numbers in a flat file, you may have
to look for delimiter values in the data ending each row, and if these
aren't there you can't be sure how the matrix looks like, as long as
their are multiple m,n where m * n satisfies the total count of numbers
read.

You could have a look at sscanf(), scanf() functions on how to read in
data in a formatted way. Maybe browsing the c-faq, in particular chapter
12 http://www.c-faq.com/stdio/index.html isn't such a bad idea, it must
have some useful stuff on reading in date from files (or basically any
data stream, as C treats them all the same)

For a good primer on C, Kernighan and Ritchie still is considered of
unparallelled value by many, I my self have learnt(ed?) a great deal of
(the little bit of) what I know from
http://publications.gbdirect.co.uk/c_book/
Pretty dated stuff, but clear, concise and to the point nonetheless.

HTH
Sh.

Aug 23 '06 #6

Flash Gordon

kilter wrote:

Nils O. Selåsdal wrote:

>kilter wrote:

>>Anyone know of a routine that will return the number of rows and
columns in a matrix?

As C has no matrices, you should explain further what you mean
and want.

Thanks for your quick reply. The idea is that I open a file that has
numerical data in a form of a matrix but I don't know a priori the
number of columns and rows of this file. I want to know the number of
rows and columns of that data matrix, after I read it and store it as a
matrix in C, in order to apply operations to its entries.

I am a novice really and your help is very much appreciated.

Since you don't know the size in advance you will have to use dynamic
memory allocation, something that takes a bit of work to get right.
Since this is a 2D matrix you will also need to work out how to
dynamically allocate a 2D array. Question 6.20 of the comp.lang.c FAQ
will help with this. I suggest you also read through the rest of section
6 to help you avoid a lot of other potential areas of confusion.

If you can specify the format of the file it will simplify things if you
say that the first line just tells you how many rows and columns.

Reading the file can be done using fgets (don't use gets) and then parse
it one line at a time. Precisely how you parse it depends on how the
file is formatted.

This should get you started.

The comp.lang.c FAQ is available at http://c-faq.com/ and you should
always check it to see if it answers your questions.
--
Flash Gordon

Aug 23 '06 #7