How to split a single line, divided by space, into two differente types

Question

I'm having some trouble finding a solution for splitting a file single line in c. There is a .txt file like this:

9999 m 32
9998 f 20 
9997 o 22 
9996 m 18 
9995 o 45 
9994 f 40 
9993 m 76

where, for example, 9994 f 40, 9994 is an int, f a char and 40 another int.

I was trying to use fgets() to take the line and separate it afterwards but i'm not finding a way to split the line information in three so i can use them the way it's needed. There is another function other than fgets() that is better for this? Or there is a way to do it with fgets()?

Answer 1

You can read the text file line by line using fgets and get int and char values from string using sscanf :-

char line[30];             // read line by line input from file in this
int a,b;                  
char c; 
while(fgets(line, 30, file) != NULL){    // file is your file pointer
    if(sscanf(line, "%d %c %d", &a, &c, &b) == 3){
        printf("%d %c %d\n", a,c,b);
    }
}