file handling with structures

Question

how can I read the data into a .txt file in that form:

"miles mi distance 1609.3
kilometres km distance 1000
metres m distance 1
kilograms kg weight 1
grams g weight 0.001
pounds lb weight 0.43592"

I should store this data into an array of structures. Structures are in this form:

typedef struct{
char name[L];
char abbreviation[L];
char type[L];
float conversion;
} unit_t;

I tried with fread() but it doesn't assign each string to the right field of the structures...how shold I do?

Answer 1

using fscanf is easier instead

you do something like this
while (!feof(fptr)){
fscanf("%s %s...", name, abbr..);
}