SteveFarson graced this group with:
: I'm teaching myself C/C++ and I'm now in the wonderful world of file io and arrays.  I am successful at reading a simple file like this:

: ABC -10  10 30
: CIA  20 -20 20
: FBI -30  30 10

: But when I put commas between the fields or quotes around the text, my program below goes bananas.  I have not found anything
: in my books that address this.  Could someone show me how to adapt my program below to work with a text file having commas
: between fields and quotes around text?  I would deeply appreciate it.  Thanks, Steve

: main()
: {
:  FILE *fp;
:  char brand[3][30];
:  signed int xval[3],yval[3],amp[3];
:  int i = 0;

:  while (!feof(fp))
:  {
:   fscanf(fp, "%s %d %d %d\n", brand[i], &xval[i], &yval[i], &amp[i]);

:   printf("\n");
:   printf("Brand name: %s\n", brand[i]);
:   printf("X Value: %d\n", xval[i]);
:   printf("Y Value: %d\n", yval[i]);
:   printf("Amplitude: %d\n", amp[i]);

:   i = i++;
:  }

:  fclose(fp);
:  return 0;
: }

I would use fgets() to read in a whole line from the text file, commas
and all, and then analyze the character array, char by char to store
input into a multidimensional array like you are doing above.
That is, read in a line, then read the array until you hit a comma, then
store that stuff you have read into an element in your multidim. array.

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