Thanks to all that replyed.
Richard Ivanwich
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> From: Henrik Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Richard Ivanowich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: linux c programming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Reading file in a structure
> Date: Sunday, September 13, 1998 3:12 PM
>
> Richard Ivanowich wrote:
> >
> > The file is just a plain test file like so
> >
> > ---
> > joe 30
> > larry 20
> > moe 50
> > ---
>
> Then the simplest parser is
>
> char user[10+1]; /* +1 for terminating null */
> int number;
> while (fscanf(fp, "%10s %d\n", user, &number) == 2)
> {
> /* Do something with user & number */
> }
>
> But if you want to provide intelligent error handling & reporting then
> the approach shown by Glynn using fgets and sscanf is more appropriate.
>
> If you'd like to allow spaces in the username then you could use %10c
> instead of %10s, or build a more complex parser.
>
> How to compare the two files depens on if the files are sorted or not.
> If the files are sorted then you can read both files and compare one
> record at a time. If the files are unsorted then you need to store one
> of them in memory (perferably sorted in a tree or hash structure if the
> number of records are large).
>
> ---
> Henrik Nordstr�m
