From:	Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: Reading in a configuration file
Date:	13 Jul 2000 16:12:39 GMT
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Steve Johnston <s DOT johnston AT coventry DOT ac DOT uk> wrote:
[...]

> At the moment I use fscanf() for the obtaining the values I want -
> is there any way I can get it to jump to the next line in the file
> once its read in one floating point value?

You could use

	fscanf(file, "%d%*[^\n]%*[\n]", value);

But the usual approach to scanning line-oriented, 'free' format input
is not to use fscanf(), but instead fgets() to read in the text, a
line at a time, and then use sscanf() on the resulting string. fgets()
has the advantage that it does make a difference between line ends and
white space, unlike all but the most experienced users' scanf()
strings do.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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