I have a custom archive structured as follows:
%list% name1 name2 name3 %list%
%dirs% archive directories %dirs%
%content% name1 path1 content of file1 %content%
%content% name2 path2 content of file2 %content%
%content% name3 path3 content of file3 %content%
%list% contains names of files in archive
%dirs% contains names of directories
%content% lists file contents.
Since i need to print the content of a specified file, i want to read this archive word by word, in order to identify %content%
tag and file name.
I know the existence of fscanf()
, but it seems to work efficiently only if you know the archive pattern.
Is there a C library or command, like ifstream
for C++, that allows me to read word by word?
Thanks
You can just use fscanf
to read one word at a time:
void read_words (FILE *f) {
char x[1024];
/* assumes no word exceeds length of 1023 */
while (fscanf(f, " %1023s", x) == 1) {
puts(x);
}
}
If you don't know the maximum length of each word, you can use something similar to this answer to get the complete line, then use sscanf
instead, using a buffer as large as the one created to read in the complete line. Or, you could use strtok
to slice the read in line up into words.
like this
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <ctype.h>
typedef char Type;
typedef struct vector {
size_t size;
size_t capacity;
Type *array;
} Vector;
Vector *vec_make(){
Vector *v;
v = (Vector*)malloc(sizeof(Vector));
if(v){
v->size = 0;
v->capacity=16;
v->array=(Type*)realloc(NULL, sizeof(Type)*(v->capacity += 16));
}
return v;
}
void vec_add(Vector *v, Type value){
v->array[v->size] = value;
if(++v->size == v->capacity){
v->array=(Type*)realloc(v->array, sizeof(Type)*(v->capacity += 16));
if(!v->array){
perror("memory not enough");
exit(-1);
}
}
}
void vec_reset(Vector *v){
v->size = 0;
}
size_t vec_size(Vector *v){
return v->size;
}
Type *vec_getArray(Vector *v){
return v->array;
}
void vec_free(Vector *v){
free(v->array);
free(v);
}
char *fin(FILE *fp){
static Vector *v = NULL;
int ch;
if(v == NULL) v = vec_make();
vec_reset(v);
while(EOF!=(ch=fgetc(fp))){
if(isspace(ch)) continue;//skip space character
while(!isspace(ch)){
vec_add(v, ch);
if(EOF == (ch = fgetc(fp)))break;
}
vec_add(v, '\0');
break;
}
if(vec_size(v) != 0) return vec_getArray(v);
vec_free(v);
v = NULL;
return NULL;
}
int main(void){
FILE *fp = stdin;
char *wordp;
while(NULL!=(wordp=fin(fp))){
printf("%s\n", wordp);
}
return 0;
}