From: broeker AT acp3bf DOT knirsch DOT de (Hans-Bernhard Broeker)
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Subject: Re: Help to read array from text file
Date: 16 Aug 1999 15:44:09 +0200
Organization: RWTH Aachen, III. physikalisches Institut B
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Steve (malex AT xtra DOT co DOT nz) wrote:
> I am trying to read a text file which contains 5 rows and 5 columns of
> numbers into an array, then print out the array on screem in the same format
> that is was in the text file so that individual parts of the array can be
> summed, counted etc.

As is, your program doesn't even begin to read *numbers* from the
input file. Not even 'lines' are read: it just reads characters and
incorrectly treats them like strings. You'll want to look up functions
like fscanf() or sscanf() (the "%d" format spec, in particular) for
parsing of numbers, and 'fgets()' for reading whole lines of text in
one go, so you can parse them with sscanf(), later on.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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