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please help! how can I load a file in C?

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Please I need some help in C. I have a file with ".dat" format, how can i load it in C, into a variable, so that I can use the data for some math calculations later on?
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http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/cfileio.html
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You have to know the file format before it is useful to you. The link that stupidenator posted will show you how to use the FILE to read a file, but that is useless if you don't know the details of what the file contains.
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thx guys it did help me!
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well actually Ancient Dragon, you are right, my file contains some data collected from the output of an Analog-to-Digital converter, I need to load these data and try to do some mathematical calculations to get some results. Can u help me with that?
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>>Can u help me with that?
Probably, but not without knowing how the data was written
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