Reading multiple lines in C using fscanf

Question

i'm currently doing an uni project which has to read a multiple lines sequence of inputs given in a .txt format. This is my first experience with C, so i don't know much about reading files with fscanf and then processing them. The code i wrote goes like this:

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

int main() {
    char tipo [1];
    float n1, n2, n3, n4;
    int i;
    FILE *stream;
    stream=fopen("init.txt", "r");
    if ((stream=fopen("init.txt", "r"))==NULL) {
        printf("Error");
    } else {
        i=0;
        while (i<4) {
            i++;
//i know i could use a for instead of a while
            fscanf(stream, "%s %f %f %f %f%", &tipo, &n1, &n2, &n3, &n4);
            printf("%s %f %f %f %f", tipo, n1, n2, n3, n4);
        }
    }
    return 0;
}

My "init" file is formatted like this:

L 150.50 165.18 182.16 200.50
G 768.12 876.27 976.56 958.12
A 1250.15 1252.55 1260.60 1265.15
L 200.50 245.30 260.10 275.00
A 1450.15 1523.54 1245.17 1278.23
G 958.12 1000.65 1040.78 1068.12

I don't know how to tell the program to skip a line after the first one is read.

Thanks for the help in advance!

Answer 1

There's no reason to use a char array (string) when you're only going to read one character.

Do this:

char tipo;

and

fscanf(stream, " %c %f %f %f %f%", &tipo, &n1, &n2, &n3, &n4);

and your code should work. Note the c instead of s.