Expert: Narendra - 8/20/2007

Question
Hi Narendra,

Here is a sample data file:
0 400 34.0000123 0 -23.9 0 -4 5000 -1 test2.txt
0 40 762 232.98983 0 0 50 1000 1 test2.txt

each line basically consists of numbers and at the end of the line the name of text file the results will be saved in. I want the program to read the the data one line at a time. Say it reads line one then I want to assign values to variables as follows:
var1 = 0;
var2 = 400;
var3 = 34.0000123;
.
.
.
var10 = test1.txt

I used fgets() to read line by line but don't know how to manipulate it further.

Regards,
Zia

Answer
Since you are using fgets() to read till the end of line, each line will be strored in a string.
Now, use sscanf() to read and parse this string.
Suppose, your string variable is my_str, then you can do:
int data1, data2, data3, data4, data5, data6, data7, data8, data9;
char filename[16] = "";
sscanf(my_str, "%f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %s, data1, data2, data3, data4, data5, data6, data7, data8, data9, filename);

-Narendra