How do I get words seoarated by pipe delimiters

[pjb]

I have to read in records from a file. The records have variable length data fields or words, separated by pipe symbols "|". The number of words on a record is constant. How do I get the individual words??

 

[rbobbitt]

Read in each line of the file using fgets(). Then parse the line using strtok() or sscanf().

If you get stuck, post your code.

Russ
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[SwapSawe]

Accept the field in a string till the '|' is encountered so as to get one field and if you get a '\n' you'll get a record.
After that if you have any field which has integers you can parse them using strtol() as suggested by Russ.

You can check EOF flag in a while loop hence finding your records till the EOF.

If you still get problems post your code.

Regards,
SwapSawe.