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[PaolaS]

I have in my text file:

Sandra Bullock
Edmundo Wilson
Daniel Perez
Peter Julius
Anthony Hopkins
Paola Sandoval
Giovanna White

But, I want learn the second row, from the position 3 to 7
the word "mundo".

If anybody knows the code for it, I will be thanksfully.

Paola S

 

[nasirulh]

Hi Paolas
Your problem can be solved easily if you are writing into file by a fixed length array. Then what you have to do is that which ever line you have to read first set your file pointer to that position.
Like
chat arr[50];
FILE *fp = fopen(filename,"r"
fseek(fp,(sizeof(arr) * no of record to be read)+2,SEEK_SET);
fread(arr,sizeof(char),4,fp);
arr here will contain from third element to 7th element.

 

[ankan]

If its not fixed length, you may ...

1) Search for the newlines...
or,
2) Read the file line by line (using getline) till u get to the line u require, and then use strtok( )...

Hope this helps. Ankan.

Please do correct me if I am wrong. s-)

 

[ankan]

Make that strncpy( ), not strtok( ). Sorry for the mistake. Ankan.

Please do correct me if I am wrong. s-)