When I try to copy the strtok through strcpy as suggested by the other answers on this forum. I don't get the respective number. File format is something like this 43,789,127.0.0.1 on each particular line. However I get 127 in the temp[2] location which should be 127.0.0.1 . What am I missing over here?
FILE *f = fopen("somefile", "r");
char *temp[3];
temp[0] = malloc(20);
temp[1] = malloc(20);
temp[2] = malloc(20);
const char s[1] = ",";
char *pch;
if(f != NULL)
{
char line[1024];
while(fgets(line, sizeof line, f) != NULL)
{
pch = strtok(line, s);
for(int i = 0; i<3; i++)
{
strcpy(temp[i],pch);
pch = strtok (NULL, s);
}
}
fclose(f);
} else
{
perror("somefile");
}
for(int i = 0; i<3; i++)
{
printf ("%s\n",temp[i]);
}
s
is not a proper C string: const char s[1] = ",";
defines it to have a size of 1, without a null terminator.
Use this instead:
const char *s = ",";
Note that a line with fewer than 2 commas will cause the program to have undefined behavior as you do not check that strtok()
returns a non NULL pointer. Here is an alternative using sscanf()
:
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
FILE *fp = fopen("somefile", "r");
char temp[3][20];
if (fp != NULL) {
char line[1024];
while (fgets(line, sizeof line, fp) != NULL) {
if (sscanf(line, "%19[^,],%19[^,],%19[^\n]", temp[0], temp[1], temp[2]) == 3) {
printf("%s\n%s\n%s\n\n", temp[0], temp[1], temp[2]);
}
}
fclose(fp);
}
return 0;
}
Note however that the above code will fail to parse lines with empty fields such as ,,
because sscanf()
requires a non empty string for the %[^,]
conversion specifier.
Note also that strtok()
would be inappropriate for such parsing too as it treats sequences of separators as a single separator, which is OK for white space but probably incorrect for ,
.