From:	"Joe Ury" <j DOT ury AT unsw DOT edu DOT au>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	why is output different each time (2nd try)
Date:	3 Nov 1998 05:31:17 GMT
Organization:	University of New South Wales
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Sorry my first message had a error in the code.
Why do I get differing output each time.  Its reading a marked up text file
and the first time it works ok then the next time what looks like memory
dump is added at the beginning of each line then the next time more of the
same and after a while its ok again - should I be flushing memory
somewhere?  Is there a bug in memchar - I've looked but it seems that the
bug that was their is fixed...any ideas? 

help and thanks.

sample of input file:
|A.I.J.A. briefing*Australian Institute of Jewish Affairs. Melbourne.
*NMCHS *May 1991+ *NMOR *1994+ *NU:J *no. 1 (Feb. 1991)+ * * * * * * * * *
* * * * *
|A.I.J.A. papers.* *NMCHS *Aug. 1992+ *NMOR *1996+ * * * * * * * * * * * *
* * * *
|A.I.J.A. survey*Australian Institute of Jewish Affairs. Melbourne. *NMOR
*1996+ *NU:J *no. 1 (Apr.-May 1986)+ *VMAK *1986- * * * * * * * * * * * * *
*
|A.J.A. quarterly*Anglo-Jewish Association. London. *NGS *v. 1 (1955) -8
(1966) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *



#include 	<stdio.h>
#include 	<stdlib.h>
#include	<errno.h>
#include	<conio.h>
#include	<string.h>
char Pause()
{
  char c;
  printf("\nPress Enter to continue...");
  while ((c = getchar()) != '\n') { }
  return c;
}

int	main()
{
	char  array [1000];
	char *t, *x;
	FILE  *f1, *f2;
	char delimit[] = "*";
        int i = 1;
      //	char c;
        int len;

	clrscr();
 
	if((f1= fopen("jewish.prn" , "r" )) == NULL ) {
		perror( "Cannot open file for reading" ) ;
		exit( EXIT_FAILURE ) ;
	}

	if((f2= fopen("text1.out" , "w" )) == NULL ) {
		perror( "Cannot open file for writing" ) ;
		exit( EXIT_FAILURE ) ;
        }


       while(fgets( array , sizeof( array ) , f1 ) != NULL ){
	      //	c = fgetc(f1);
	      //	fputc(c, stdout);
		t = strtok(array, delimit);

		while (t) {
		  len = strlen(t);
		  do {
		      x = (char *)memchr(t, '|', len);
		      if (x)
		      *x = '\n';
		  } while (x);
		      fputs(x,f2);
		  if (len > 1)
		    fprintf(f2, "%s\n", t);
		    t = strtok(NULL, delimit);
		}
       }
       
  exit(1);
  return 0 ;
}

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