From:	Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject:	Re: reading text files
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On Tue, 02 May 2000 05:30:49 +0000, "nimrod a. abing"
<synflood AT eudoramail DOT com> wrote:

[snipped most of source code]
>>  //here is the place to read in added and counted
>
>Hmmm... judging from your comments, you're using C++.

Or C9x, which GCC partially supports.  One of the new features of the
C99 standard is single-line comments, something it borrowed from the
C++ language.

>Or have tried replacing `fread' with `fscanf'? It
>works just like `scanf' only it works with *open*
>files. `scanf("%d", %data)' is also 
>`fscanf(stdin, "%d", &data)'. `fread' is best used
>for reading in large chunks of a file opened in
>binary mode. In your case, `fscanf' would work since
>your separators are newlines.

scanf() and fscanf() introduce buffer overflow errors.
I'd suggest fgets() with sscanf().

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