Best way to parse a text file

[tmoody]

I am having a little difficulty on what I term a simple exercise. I have a text file that has multiple strings seperated by white space and then a newline character. Using fscanf dosn't work very well, and I was wondering the best way this??

Thanks in advance
Tim Moody

 

[CaKiwi]

I suggest using strtok().

char *tok;
tok = strtok(a, " \t"
while(tok!=NULL)
{
printf("%s\n",tok);
tok = strtok(NULL, " \t"
}

Note that strtok() changes the input array by adding a null in place of the token found.
Hope this helps.
CaKiwi

 

[Guest_imported]

Thanks for the tip. I get a line from the file with fgets(this terminates on newline) then I use strtok to parse the line.
Thanks
Tim Moody