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I working on a program that summerizes text documents and I need a way to find the length of the longest and shortest lines in the file and display it in a log file. I've already done a character count and line count. Also say I wanted to created different logfiles for each document i summerize how can this be achieved without overwriting the previos log file?
heres what i've done so far
heres what i've done so far
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open the log file for append mode, not write mode, if you want just one log file that contains info for all files
fopen(filename,"a");
or create a unique log file name if you want results in separate log files.
fopen(filename,"a");
or create a unique log file name if you want results in separate log files.
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Originally Posted by boujibabe 
I working on a program that summerizes text documents and I need a way to find the length of the longest and shortest lines in the file and display it in a log file. I've already done a character count and line count.
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fgetc() use fgets() to read an entire line. Then you can add a loop to continue doing the part you have already done, and you can check the length of the line for the min and max.Or start a counter to count each character and when you read the '\n' test that counter against the current min & max. Then reset the counter to 0 and continue.
I recommend reading the first line and set min & max to the length of that line. That would be a good starting point.
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I implemented something like this but the stats are incorrect I want to keep charctr so I can output the average characters perline.
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>>but the stats are incorrect
how do you know that? What are you comparing them to?
how do you know that? What are you comparing them to?
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the longest line is always ten characters the number of lines is one short and nothing is being written to the log file
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does the last line of the file contain '\n' ? If not, then your program will not count it. fgets() will fix that problem because it reads all lines. Getting the length of the longest line is trivel too -- just use strlen() to get the length of the line read by fgets().
The size of the file can not be determined by either your program or using fgets() becuase in MS-Windows os reading text files converts "\r\n" into just "\n". It will be easier to get file length by calling fstat() or stat().
you forgot to close the file after writing to it. This will cause your program to eventually run out of file handles. And the fputs() statement is probably incorrect -- all it is doing is printing the same hard-coded text "avgchar" in the file each time. Use something like this:
The size of the file can not be determined by either your program or using fgets() becuase in MS-Windows os reading text files converts "\r\n" into just "\n". It will be easier to get file length by calling fstat() or stat().
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How do I use fgets if I am not sure of the maximum line size?
while (fgets(line, LINE_MAX, file) != EOF)
while (fgets(line, LINE_MAX, file) != EOF)
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Just declare an array of characters. I think 512 should suffice for your purpose.
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