Reading a string from a file and writing it into a structure [C]

Question

I have a text file that looks like this:
Tony 98
Alex 76
Emily Rose 88

Structure that I need to load data into looks like this:
struct Student{
char name[20];
int score;
}array[100];

I am using fscanf for loading data into array of structures like this:

while(i<100 && fscanf(input,"%20s %d",array[i].name, &array[i].score)==2)
i++;

I encounter a problem with "Emily Rose" since it only loads "Emily" and stops there.
I know how to solve this problem if name and score are separated by something that's not a space(for example a comma):

while(fscanf(filename,"%d",&niz[i].score)==1){
i=-1;
do{
if(i<20) i++;
name[i]=fgetc(filename);
}while(name[i]!=',' && name[i]!=EOF);
name[i]='\0';
}

This would work if my file looked like this:
88,Emily Rose

How can I make it work if there are spaces between names, and name and score?

Answer 1

Use

while(i<100 && fscanf(input,"%[^0-9] %d ",array[i].name, &array[i].score)> 0)

%[^0-9] reads everything BUT digits...
%d then reads digits part...
the space after %d is needed to get rid of \n...

Answer 2

Ipang with s it doen't work as required by ja008

try it! :)
https://code.sololearn.com/c04euePfXVF1/?ref=app

Answer 3

Ipang

If you put s after [^0-9] it will be treated as a literal.. If your input doesn't have this literal scanf ends...

Look at this example:

https://code.sololearn.com/clHU3Q9eD28h/?ref=app

Answer 4

ja008 %[^0-9] matches all but digits .. So \n matches...

Answer 5

Exactly... That's why [^\n] doesn't work in this case.... Read ja008 's question... :)

Answer 6

diego Code 👍
Considering the "name" field is a string, would it matter if the format specifier didn't have 's' in it? maybe something like "%[^0-9]s %d " instead?

Answer 7

diego Code
I see, can you help me understand why it doesn't work? is it because of the space in the name value in the file, or something else? I'm just wanting to learn 👌

Answer 8

diego Code it works! However, it works whether I put space before %d or not. But If I swap places of name and score in my file and in fscanf, it prints data with \n in between. Why is that?

Answer 9

Use %[^\n] instead of %s,it will work

Answer 10

Jaswanth Kishore S

ja008 want's to read a string (may include spaces ) AND an integer.

With [^\n] will read the whole line...

Answer 11

https://code.sololearn.com/cv75URLE8n0v/?ref=app
Used %[^\n] read the name n %d read the score

Answer 12

Jaswanth Kishore S if you enter

One two 56 in your program

You get:

"One two 56 and 0"

Answer 13

Got ask r u making sure to split 2 inputs?

Answer 14

U gotta enter "name name" then press enter which splits ur second input to a second line,then enter "score"