sscanf: parsing a file

[CPallini]

I hope your brilliant brain will eventually overcome the 'skip blanks and tabs' daunting trouble. :laugh:

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[Covean]

Thanks (oh my master ;P ) this saved my day! :laugh:

Greetings Covean

[tom groezer]

thanks my optimistic philospher. you work full time on this board and are getting paid for the shit u speak.

[jeron1]

5! :thumbsup:

[jeron1]

If you spent half the time working on your problem than you do hurling insults, you probably would answered your own question hours ago.

[Iain Clarke Warrior Programmer]

I'm not quite sure what you've done to annoy CPallini... but he has my trust, so I assume you deserve the long flamewar above this post. But *I'm* in a good mood... I would not use the sscanf function at all for this. One, the tabs / spaces are delimiters. In which case, read a line of text in, then use your favourite string classes Find function to get the next whitespace. Then parse the next up to that point. Delete the text you've parsed, and repeat. OK, once you've broken the long line into stringlets, then you can use sscanf if you like! Good luck, Iain.

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[David Crow]

After your tirade to other professionals here, you surely do not deserve any help.

tom groezer wrote:

I need to parse a file... I'm using sscanf function.

Which means you are using the wrong tool for the job. fscanf() would be used to parse the file, while sscanf() would be used to parse a string read from the file. There is a subtle but big difference. Learn that difference and you'll save yourself many bouts with foot-in-mouth disease.

tom groezer wrote:

How do I ensure that I skip the spaces and tabs which could be in randon number.

Is it really that hard to find something like:

char *str = "I really\tdo \t not deserve any\t help";
char s1[8], s2[8], s3[8], s4[8], s5[8], s6[8], s7[8];
sscanf(str, "%s %s %s %s %s %s %s", s1, s2, s3, s4, s5, s6, s7);

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[Tim Craig]

Zing! :thumbsup:

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[Tim Craig]

If it wasn't for English, you Indians mostly couldn't talk to each other. :doh:

You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

[Tim Craig]

tom groezer wrote:

I need a urgent fix and dont want to travel googling.

It doesn't get much faster than Googling so get used to it. If you had a clue, you'd have had your answer before you could post here.

You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

[CPallini]

I love you, man (expecially with the warrior outfit). :)

If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke
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[Tim Craig]

CPallini wrote:

expecially with the warrior outfit

Since he moved to Sweden, does that involve a big helmet with horns? :laugh: And yes, I know the Vikings didn't actually wear those but they're cool anyhow. :cool:

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[CPallini]

I think you missed something [^]... :-D

If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke
[My articles]

[Tim Craig]

Guess so! :doh: I don't usually check the profiles of people I'm familiar with. Guess we'd better send the word out that a raiding party is on the way. :laugh:

You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.