From: "Chia" <chia AT top DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: textfiles and datafiles, (again)
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 20:30:32 -0600
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Ok, I had a problem with a text file in an allegro datafile.  I tried some
stuff when some people contacted me about it and I have a new problem now.
(such as)

Anyways, I had a function which I had posted last time which tried to read a
text file out of a datafile and store the words as card names in a typedef
struct.

[...]
file = fopen( DatFile[cardnames].dat, "r" ); // open the file
 for(count = 0;count < NUM_CARDS;count++)    // for each card
  fscanf( file, "%s\n", &ALL_CARDS[count].The_Name );
[...]

I was informed that my fscanf() call should have not included the "&".  I
recompiled and had the same results:  the program ran fine but all of the
card names were blank.

So, I tried not using the datafile, but the text file itself.  This yielded
a very strange result.  All of the card names came up, but every time there
was a space in a name, it read it as a new card.

Example:  a card name is "sample card"
The program loads "sample" into one card name, and "card" into the next card
name.

First off, I want to figure out why it does that and how to fix it.  Second
off, I want to figure out how to fix the datafile file so that it works.

Any help is appreciated.  Thanks!

                                    chia AT top DOT net