I have a file with data in this format:
Name WeekDay Month day, Year StartHour:StartMin Distance Hour:Min:Sec
Example: John Mon September 5, 2011 09:18 5830 0:26:37
I want to scan this into a struct:
typedef struct {
char name[20];
char week_day[3];
char month[10];
int day;
int year;
int startHour;
int startMin;
int distance;
int hour;
int min;
int sec;
} List;
i use fscanf():
List listarray[100];
for(int i = 0; ch = fgetc(file) != 'EOF'; ch = fgetc(file), i++){
if(ch != '\0'){
fscanf(file, "%s %s %s %d %d %d %d %d %d %d %d", &listarray[i].name...etc)
}
}
My issue is that I want to filter out the noise in the input string, that being:
Month day*,* year <- the comma is consistent in all entries. I just want the month in the char array, the day in int.
And the time stamps:
startHour:startmin and hour:min:sec <- here I want to filter out the colon.
Do I need to put it into a string first and then do some splitting, or can I handle it in fscanf?
Update:
Okay, så I've been trying to get this to work now, but I simply cannot. I literally have no idea what the issue is.
#include <stdio.h>
/*
Struct to hold data for each runners entry
*/
typedef struct {
char name[21];
char week_day[4];
char month[11];
int date,
year,
start_hour,
start_min,
distance,
end_hour,
end_min,
end_sec;
} runnerData;
int main (int argc, const char * argv[])
{
FILE *dataFile = fopen("/Users/dennisnielsen/Documents/Development/C/Afleveringer/Eksamen/Eksamen/runs.txt", "r");
char ch;
int i, lines = 0;
//Load file
if(!dataFile)
printf("\nError: Could not open file!");
//Load data into struct.
ch = getc(dataFile);
//Find the total ammount of lines
//To find size of struct array
while(ch != EOF){
if(ch == '\n')
lines++;
ch = getc(dataFile);
}
//Allocate memory
runnerData *list = malloc(sizeof(runnerData) * lines);
//Load data into struct
for(i = 0; i < lines; i++){
fscanf(dataFile, "%s %s %s %d, %d %d:%d %d %d:%d:%d %[\n]",
list[i].name,
list[i].week_day,
list[i].month,
list[i].date,
list[i].year,
list[i].start_hour,
list[i].start_min,
list[i].distance,
list[i].end_hour,
list[i].end_min,
list[i].end_sec);
printf("\n#%d:%s", i, list[i].name);
}
fclose(dataFile);
return 0;
}
I've been told that "only strings to do not require & in front of them in fscanf();" but I tried both with and without ampersand to no avail.