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| From | Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? |
| Date | 2016-12-14 05:30 +0100 |
| Organization | albasani.net |
| Message-ID | <20161214053059.6eaca1b8@maxa-pc> (permalink) |
| References | <o2qh45$9ae$1@dont-email.me> |
On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 23:18:32 -0500
DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
> Trying to read in a file of date string (in this case 10) and add
> them to an array
>
> input
> 22-May-1819
> 01-Jan-1268
> 03-May-1417
> 01-Mar-1250
> 05-Oct-1566
> 21-Feb-1629
> 23-Jun-1478
> 18-Feb-1576
> 07-Jan-1099
> 21-Mar-1299
>
>
> =====================================================
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <string.h>
>
> int main()
> {
> int i=0,n=0;
> char *datestr[20]; //segfaults unless 2*input lines
> char line[12];
> FILE *fp = fopen("datestrings.txt","r");
> while(fgets(line,sizeof(line),fp)!=NULL) {
> datestr[i]=malloc(sizeof(line));
> strcpy(datestr[i],line);
> i++;n++;
> }
> fclose(fp);
> for (i=0;i<n;i++){
> printf("%s\n", datestr[i]);
> }
> }
> =====================================================
>
> output
> 22-May-1819
>
>
> 01-Jan-1268
>
>
> 03-May-1417
>
>
> 01-Mar-1250
>
>
> 05-Oct-1566
>
>
> 21-Feb-1629
>
>
> 23-Jun-1478
>
>
> 18-Feb-1576
>
>
> 07-Jan-1099
>
>
> 21-Mar-1299
>
>
>
>
> Any suggestions on how to fix it, or do it better?
>
> Thanks
>
>
fgets does not discards eol characters and reads maximum size - 1
characters, therefore new line is read as separate array entry.
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Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-12-13 23:18 -0500
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-12-14 05:30 +0100
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? mark.bluemel@gmail.com - 2016-12-14 00:59 -0800
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-14 10:38 +0000
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-12-14 12:53 -0500
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-14 18:05 +0000
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-12-14 11:57 -0800
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-14 20:05 +0000
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2016-12-14 15:21 -0500
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-12-14 12:28 -0800
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-12-14 13:09 -0800
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Jean-Marc Bourguet <jm@bourguet.org> - 2016-12-14 22:53 +0100
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? <william@wilbur.25thandClement.com> - 2016-12-14 15:47 -0800
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-12-14 15:41 -0700
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-14 23:26 +0000
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-12-14 17:33 -0700
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-15 00:42 +0000
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-12-14 17:05 -0800
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-15 08:21 +0000
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-12-15 09:15 -0800
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-15 17:50 +0000
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-12-15 12:15 -0800
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-15 20:37 +0000
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2016-12-15 20:08 +0000
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-12-14 20:40 -0700
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-15 08:36 +0000
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-12-15 17:43 -0700
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-16 01:05 +0000
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-12-15 18:34 -0700
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? <william@wilbur.25thandClement.com> - 2016-12-15 10:14 -0800
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2016-12-15 20:15 +0000
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2016-12-15 01:51 -0800
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2016-12-15 06:09 -0800
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2016-12-15 17:47 -0800
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-12-14 12:15 -0800
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? <william@wilbur.25thandClement.com> - 2016-12-15 10:24 -0800
Re: overcommit is the plague Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2016-12-17 01:17 +0100
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-12-14 20:19 +0000
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-12-14 17:44 -0500
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-12-15 00:21 +0000
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? mark.bluemel@gmail.com - 2016-12-15 00:56 -0800
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-12-15 22:08 +0000
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2016-12-14 13:39 -0800
Re: Why is this outputting alternate blank lines? Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2016-12-16 07:12 +0000
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