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1. How can I make fscanf re-read a line upon a condition being met?    stackoverflow.com

while( fscanf( tracefile, "%s ", opcode ) != EOF ){blah} Occasionally I need to cause fscanf to re-read a line upon a certain condition in my code being met. Is this possible; ...

2. C reading in multiple lines from file    stackoverflow.com

The problem I have is reading in multiple lines of integers from a file using standard input. The files looks like:

123
423
235
523
..etc

/*
 * Read in ...

3. fscanf() only picking up first line of file    stackoverflow.com

I have a tab delimited file that I am trying to convert to a tab delimited file. I am using C. I am getting stuck on trying to read the second ...

4. fscanf matching one line, but not another, similar line    stackoverflow.com

I'm attempting to read a file (particularly /proc/stat) to get data out of it. There are a multitude of ways to do this in C, but (so far) I'm using fscanf(). ...

5. fscanf reads a line that does not exists in a file    stackoverflow.com

I'm on a Fedora 15 computer and I have a simple code that looks like this

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main()
{
    int x[50], y[50];
    int i;
  ...

6. fscanf and reading lines    cboard.cprogramming.com

7. reading the next line using fscanf    cboard.cprogramming.com

Then just put a * before the d in the fscanf() line, and that should work. I haven't done that, however. What I do is scan the item in and assign it to "gar" (short for garbage), and then just ignore it. Gar gets re-used for different items like that. But don't Rube Goldberg the whole fscanf() stuff with multiple lines ...

8. Do I want to use fscanf if a line I'm reading is of varied length?    cboard.cprogramming.com

9. fscanf and new lines    cboard.cprogramming.com

10. Can I successively read lines using fscanf?    cboard.cprogramming.com

11. Reading the next line using fscanf    forums.devshed.com

12. read from file one line at a time using fscanf    forums.devshed.com

13. Getting Line From File: fscanf() going nuts!    forums.devshed.com

I'm using an ANSI C program to read in data from a file that has, every few lines, a name on it. Sometimes the name is just a first name, as in "Dave", and sometimes it's two names, as in "Bob Jones". I need to store the name in a string, and I need all of it (not just the first ...

14. URGENT Quickie: fscanf a line from a file? Please help me, deadline in a few hours!    forums.devshed.com

Quote: Originally posted by Scorpions4ever %[^/] means match all characters from the input which are not '/' (basically keep reading chars until you hit a '/') . * means read the next input and then discard the value (i.e. do not assign it to any variable in the argument list). So %*c means, read one character and then ignore the value ...