From: Richard Webb <rcsw@periscon.com>
To: Elias Athanasopoulos <eathan@otenet.gr>
Cc: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: parsing with fscanf().
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 23:14:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200209112314.47300.rcsw@periscon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020911212428.A1167@neutrino.particles.org>
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R.
On Wednesday 11 September 2002 7:24 pm, Elias Athanasopoulos wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A really newbie question, but I have no time for research (my deadline
> is counted in hours).
>
> I have to parse a text file, which has been exported from MS Excel (I
> have no access to this thingie) using TABs as delimeters. The text
> is like:
>
> 4 3 2.0
> 5 1.2
> 4 3 2.4
>
> I use fscanf() to insert the data to my structures, but the "gap" (between
> 5 and 1.2) breaks the sequence. fscanf() places the 3rd column to the 2nd
> field in my structure.
>
> Is there a trivial way to bypass the problem using fscanf() or I have to do
> the parsing using read()?
>
> Elias
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-11 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-11 18:24 parsing with fscanf() Elias Athanasopoulos
2002-09-11 19:36 ` Glynn Clements
2002-09-11 20:08 ` Elias Athanasopoulos
2002-09-12 7:25 ` Mohammed Khalid Ansari
2002-09-12 7:21 ` Carlos Fernández
2002-09-11 22:14 ` Richard Webb [this message]
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