Print New Line to File in C

[Dirkle]

Good Evening,

I'm trying to print information to a file with some basic information about a group of people, but when I use the fprintf function and add the \n or \r to the end of the format, the information is not printed on a new line in the text document I have opened. It is instead printing the information without spaces, on the last line of the document to the right of the old information.

I'm running on Windows Vista Ultimate with cygwin in C.

This isn't a homework assignment, I promise.

One other thing, is there any way to scan the number of lines in a text file? I currently have a function that just scans in every line until it reaches the EOF and a variable keeps count of the number of times of a successful fscanf.

Cheers,

-Dirk

[oler1s]

but when I use the fprintf function and add the \n or \r to the end of the format

So i assume this file is opened in binary mode? You may have to use a combination of \r\n.

One other thing, is there any way to scan the number of lines in a text file? I currently have a function that just scans in every line until it reaches the EOF and a variable keeps count of the number of times of a successful fscanf.

Yeah, that's pretty much the idea. A line is denoted by the number of newlines there are. So you basically read in every line until you run out...

until it reaches the EOF

Hope you didn't condition on feof or something like that.

[Dirkle]

So i assume this file is opened in binary mode? You may have to use a combination of \r\n.

I don't believe it is opened in binary mode. I just used

    FILE *infilefp;
    int sr, i;
 
    /* Open file and read in all information */
 
    infilefp = fopen("empdata.txt", "r");
    if(infilefp == NULL){
        printf("Error, file not found!\n\n");
        exit(1);
    }

But the \r\n worked brilliantly, thank you.

Yeah, that's pretty much the idea. A line is denoted by the number of newlines there are. So you basically read in every line until you run out...

Would it be better to use fscanf and some variable that gets fscanf's return and to check for an EOF? Or use fgets for each line, then sscanf?

Hope you didn't condition on feof or something like that.

I just did an fscanf like I described above, but I think I'm going to need to change it to use fgets instead. Right now, the program freezes with any more than two lines in the text file.

Cheers,

-Dirk