Writing the contents of a text file into an array

[DMcCleary]

Hi, I seem to be having trouble doing this.
I have a text file containing: 173 44 84 0 25
and when I read in the numbers and try to spit them back out, I get: -1.00 -1.00 -1.00 -1.00 -1.00

Here's the code.

int main()
{

/* define local variables */
FILE *firstfile;
float NumArray[5];
int count;

/* begin statements */

/* opens the file A:\Five_Num.txt */
firstfile = fopen("A:\Five_Num.txt", "r"

/* reads in numbers from file */
for(count = 0; count < 5; count++)
NumArray[count] = fscanf(firstfile, &quot;%f&quot;, &NumArray[count]);

for(count = 0; count < 5; count++)
printf(&quot;%.2f&quot;, NumArray[count]);

fflush(stdin);
getchar();
return(0);
}

So what's my problem?

 

[chipperMDW]

In the instruction:

NumArray[count] = fscanf(firstfile, "%f", &NumArray[count]);

you read the numbers from the file into

NumArray[count]

like you want to, but then you assign the result of the fscanf to

NumArray[count]

. Since fscanf returns the number of arguments it read, you keep getting 1. Just take out

NumArray[count] =

and it should work better.