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Jan 20th, 2009

make fgets() wait for new lines.

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Hi.
am using fgets() to read lines from a text file.
the file is being updated after a few seconds.

i want to read and process the last appended line at the end of the file.

i tried the following:

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while(true){ //infinite loop
 
if(fgets(line,size,fp)!=NULL)
    process line.
 
}
while(true){ //infinite loop

if(fgets(line,size,fp)!=NULL)
    process line.

}

plz help.

Last edited by Narue; Jan 20th, 2009 at 9:23 am. Reason: added code tags

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Re: make fgets() wait for new lines.

Something like this (untested)

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while ( 1 ) {
  while ( fgets(line,size,fp)!=NULL) {
    // process lines
  }
  clearerr( fp );  // reset end of file flag
  sleep( 1 );  // wait for more lines to arrive
}
while ( 1 ) {
  while ( fgets(line,size,fp)!=NULL) {
    // process lines
  }
  clearerr( fp );  // reset end of file flag
  sleep( 1 );  // wait for more lines to arrive
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Re: make fgets() wait for new lines.

i tried it. its not working.

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Re: make fgets() wait for new lines.

Oh, thanks for the update, be sure to add more information later.

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Re: make fgets() wait for new lines.

does fgets() gets aware when a file is updated ?

will clearerr( fp ) tell fgets() that EOF has not been reached?

Last edited by CoolAtt; Jan 21st, 2009 at 3:18 am.

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Click to Expand / Collapse Quote originally posted by CoolAtt ...

does fgets() gets aware when a file is updated ?

will clearerr( fp ) tell fgets() that EOF has not been reached?

If the above method is not working then you must go for closing and reopening of the file when it gets updated

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Re: make fgets() wait for new lines.

Okay....I think, the following prototype might help you...
- I made this on Linux and compiled with gcc
- 'test.txt' was in the same directory as my '.c' file

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#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>
 
int main(void)
{
    char buff[100];
    FILE* fp_1;
 
    fp_1 = fopen("./test.txt","r");
    memset(buff,0,sizeof(buff));
 
    while(1)
    {
        if(fgets(buff,100,fp_1))
              ;
        else
        {
            printf("\n %s \n",buff);  //process the last appended line here
            fclose(fp_1);
            fp_1 = fopen("./test.txt","r");
        }
 
    }
 
    return 0;
}
#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>

int main(void)
{
    char buff[100];
    FILE* fp_1;

    fp_1 = fopen("./test.txt","r");
    memset(buff,0,sizeof(buff));

    while(1)
    {
        if(fgets(buff,100,fp_1))
              ;
        else
        {
            printf("\n %s \n",buff);  //process the last appended line here
            fclose(fp_1);
            fp_1 = fopen("./test.txt","r");
        }

    }

    return 0;
}

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Re: make fgets() wait for new lines.

thx for the code.
but because there is an infinite loop cpu usage is 100%.
do you know how to prevent this ?

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Re: make fgets() wait for new lines.

You could try using sleep(n) in the loop body. This will make your code defer to some other thread for at least n milliseconds, and free up the CPU. Note: is _sleep() under Win32

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Re: make fgets() wait for new lines.

You may check out that are there any kind of signals that are generated and can be handled when a text file gets updated....if yes, then you can use signal handling and make your program wait until a signal is received and then process the data in file....that will definitely reduce your CPU usage...

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