From: eglebbk AT phys DOT uva DOT nl (Evert Glebbeek)
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Subject: Re: Acquiring data from files
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 19:56:04 GMT
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 From: "godsofmetal" <godsofmetal AT tiscalinet DOT it>
 On Sat, 1 Jul 2000 14:26:42 +0200

>Does anybody know how to acquire data from a file and how to store them in
>arrays.
>For istance, suppose we got two columns of data in a file *.* :
>
>COL1        COL2
>
>Mike          24
>George     12
>Felipe        67
>Timo          36
>Mika          29
>
>Is it possible to put the content of each col. in a string and in an array?
>
Yes to both questions. Do something like
fscanf (file, "%s %d", array_of_string[n], &(array_of_int[n]))
This should be covered in ANY book on C programming.

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Evert Glebbeek