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Printing a certain number of lines from a file.

Jul 16th, 2008

Hi.

The objective os to open a file and print 55 lines of content at a time. Since I am still learning 'C', my code (thus far) may appear slightly neophytic

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#define SIZE 1000
 
void pause( void );
 
int main( void ) {
 
   FILE* fp;
   int count, line = 0;
   char buf[SIZE];
 
   if( ( fp = fopen( "data.txt", "r" ) ) == NULL ) {
      fprintf( stderr, "Error opening file.\n" );
      exit( 1 );
   }
 
   fgets( buf, SIZE, fp );
 
   fclose( fp );
 
   for( count = 0; count != EOF; count++, line++ ) {
      while( line % 55 != 0 )
         printf( "%c\n", buf[count] );
 
      pause();
   }
 
   return 0;
}
 
void pause( void ) {
 
   char input[5];
   printf( "Press return when ready..." );
   gets( input );
}
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#define SIZE 1000

void pause( void );

int main( void ) {

   FILE* fp;
   int count, line = 0;
   char buf[SIZE];

   if( ( fp = fopen( "data.txt", "r" ) ) == NULL ) {
      fprintf( stderr, "Error opening file.\n" );
      exit( 1 );
   }

   fgets( buf, SIZE, fp );

   fclose( fp );

   for( count = 0; count != EOF; count++, line++ ) {
      while( line % 55 != 0 )
         printf( "%c\n", buf[count] );

      pause();
   }

   return 0;
}

void pause( void ) {

   char input[5];
   printf( "Press return when ready..." );
   gets( input );
}

Thanks.

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Re: Printing a certain number of lines from a file.

Jul 16th, 2008

what is this? what do you want us to do with this? I'm pretty sure this doesn't work.

thanks
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Re: Printing a certain number of lines from a file.

Jul 16th, 2008

you need to code it something like this -- it has to call fgets() for every line in the file. fgets() only reads one line of the file, not an array of lines.

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while( fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), fp) != NULL)
{
   // now do something with this line
}
while( fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), fp) != NULL)
{
   // now do something with this line
}

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Re: Printing a certain number of lines from a file.

Jul 16th, 2008

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while( line % 55 != 0 )
while( line % 55 != 0 )

Note that 0 % 55 is 0, so you'll pause before printing anything, and then display 55 lines ad infinitum. The best solution is probably to use something like this:

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while( line != 0 && line % 55 != 0 )
while( line != 0 && line % 55 != 0 )

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