Reading data from a textfiletype
 

Im trying to read some integers values from a text file.
The problem is that first lines of the text files contains some text and only then theres the values that i want to read into variables , and i dont know how to get down three lines and then read using fscanf .

TEXT FILE(storeinfo.txt):
Stores Information:
Store Code Store Size Store Workers Store Income
951 1200 7 67000
952 1452 12 92833
953 800 5 41000
954 1000 6 61000
955 1500 12 100321

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

#include <stdlib.h>

typedef struct

{

 int code;

 int size;

 int workers;

 int total;

}store;

int main()

{

 int i;

 FILE *filein;

 char source[40];

 store storearr[5]={0};

 printf ("Enter a source filename: ");

 gets(source);

 filein = fopen (source,"rt");

 if (filein == NULL)

 {

  printf ("Unable to open sourcefile...\n");

  exit(1);

 }

 for (i=0;i<5;i++)

  fscanf(filein,"%d %d %d %d\n",&storearr[i].code,&storearr[i].size,&storearr[i].workers,&storearr[i].total);

 for (i=0;i<5;i++)

  printf ("%-15d %-15d %-15d %-15d\n",storearr[i].code,storearr[i].size,storearr[i].workers,storearr[i].total);

 fclose (filein);

 return 0;

}

Re: Reading data from a textfiletype
 

Keep a counter which will be initialized to 1, fgets the entire line of text in a character array, skip the first two lines using the counter previously mentioned and start reading from the third line.

Read this for using fgets.

Re: Reading data from a textfiletype
 

can you please post a code example ?

Re: Reading data from a textfiletype
 

#include <stdio.h> 

#include <stdlib.h> 



#define MYFILE "c:\\example.txt" 



int main(void)

{

  FILE *fp;

  char buf[BUFSIZ] = "blah";

  int i;

  

  if ((fp = fopen(MYFILE, "r")) == NULL)

  {

    perror (MYFILE);

    return (EXIT_FAILURE);

  }

  

  i = 0;



  while (fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), fp) != NULL)

  {

    if (i==0 || i == 1)      

      printf("Skip these\n");

    else

      printf ("Line %2d: %s", i, buf);

      i++;

  }

  

  fclose(fp);

    getchar();

  return(0);

}

Re: Reading data from a textfiletype
 

Thanks for the help guys !