| From: | Jack York |
| Date: | 06 Oct 2000 at 18:55:58 |
| Subject: | Re: Reading a disk file |
Hello Gregory
On 06-Oct-00, Gregory Roberts II wrote:
>> Now when I want to read it back in and put each name read
>> back into a list, I can't see which size to use in the fread
>> statement to get the proper length, since the lenght of each
>> entry varies. I can accomplish the reading and writing if
>> I write using structures but then the file isn't readable from
>> outside the program. I thought about putting some kind of
>> delimiter after each name before writing and then searching
>> for that when it is read in but that seems rather sloppy. Any
>> ideas on how to do this?
> Try fgets(). This will read a string until either a certain number of
> character is reached (so you don't overrun your buffer), or until the
> end-of-line.
Thanks Greg, that did the trick.
Jack