a must be simple question but I couldn't manage to do it.
I have to scan on a struct a text file with entries in this format:
{"data1","data2",number1,number2}
And compute first populating a struct.
Text of the exercise:
Consider the definition of the following structure
typedef struct {
char teamHome [30];
char teamHost [30];
int goalSquadraHome;
int goalSquadraOspite;
} match;
which is used to represent the result of a football match.
Write a function that takes as parameters an array of games and its size e
returns a result structure containing the following information:
the number of games won by the home team,
the number of games won by the visiting team,
the number of ties,
the name of the team that has scored the most goals in a match.
Then write a program that, given the array containing all 380 Serie A 2019/2020 matches,
print the information contained in the result.
The code is the following:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
typedef struct{
char squadraCasa[30];
char squadraOspite[30];
int golSquadraCasa;
int golSquadraOspite;
} partita;
typedef struct {
int partite_casa;
int partite_ospite;
int pareggi;
char squad_magg_num_goal[30];
} risultato;
int main(){
FILE *fp;
risultato risultati;
int maxgoal = 0;
risultati.partite_casa = 0;
risultati.partite_ospite = 0;
risultati.pareggi = 0;
partita partite[380];
int i=0;
if((fp = fopen("partiteSerieA1920.txt","rt"))==NULL){
printf("Errore nell'apertura del file\n");
exit(1);
}
while(!feof(fp)){
fscanf(fp,"{\"%s\",\"%s\",%d,%d",partite[i].squadraCasa,partite[i].squadraOspite,partite[i].golSquadraCasa,partite[i].golSquadraOspite);
i++;
}
for(i=0;i<380;i++){
if(partite[i].golSquadraCasa>partite[i].golSquadraOspite){
risultati.partite_casa++;
}else if(partite[i].golSquadraCasa<partite[i].golSquadraOspite){
risultati.partite_ospite++;
}else
risultati.pareggi++;
if(partite[i].golSquadraCasa>maxgoal){
strncpy(partite[i].squadraCasa,risultati.squad_magg_num_goal,30);
maxgoal = partite[i].golSquadraCasa;
}
if(partite[i].golSquadraOspite>maxgoal){
strncpy(partite[i].squadraOspite, risultati.squad_magg_num_goal,30);
maxgoal = partite[i].golSquadraOspite;
}
}
fclose(fp);
printf("%d %d %d %s\n",risultati.partite_casa,risultati.partite_ospite,&risultati.pareggi,&risultati.squad_magg_num_goal);
return 0;
}
Please let me know how to arrange it properly.
There may be other issues, but certainly your flow control is wrong. Instead of the incorrect while/feof loop(Why is “while ( !feof (file) )” always wrong?), try something like:
partita *p = partite;
while( 4 == fscanf(fp, "{\"%29s\",\"%29s\",%d,%d",
p->squadraCasa,
p->squadraOspite,
&p->golSquadraCasa,
&p->golSquadraOspite
) ){
p++;
}
Give this a try, its a bit of a different approach:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
typedef struct
{
char squadraCasa[30];
char squadraOspite[30];
int golSquadraCasa;
int golSquadraOspite;
} partita;
typedef struct
{
int partite_casa;
int partite_ospite;
int pareggi;
char squad_magg_num_goal[30];
} risultato;
// solves given problem and stores results in risultato struct
risultato *getResult(partita **playedGames, int size)
{
risultato *result = malloc(sizeof(risultato));
result->partite_casa = 0;
result->partite_ospite = 0;
result->pareggi = 0;
int currentHighest = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < size; i++)
{
if (playedGames[i]->golSquadraCasa > playedGames[i]->golSquadraOspite){
result->partite_casa++;
if(playedGames[i]->golSquadraCasa > currentHighest ){
currentHighest = playedGames[i]->golSquadraCasa;
strcpy(result->squad_magg_num_goal, playedGames[i]->squadraCasa);
}
}
else if (playedGames[i]->golSquadraCasa < playedGames[i]->golSquadraOspite){
result->partite_ospite++;
if (playedGames[i]->golSquadraOspite > currentHighest){
currentHighest = playedGames[i]->golSquadraOspite;
strcpy(result->squad_magg_num_goal, playedGames[i]->squadraOspite);
}
}
else{
result->pareggi++;
}
}
return result;
}
// This is a custom parser of a line from the file
// data = {"data1","data2",number1,number2}
// return -> partita struct
partita *newGame(char *data){
partita *partite = malloc(sizeof(partita));
char* temp;
// Get Home Team
temp = strchr(data, ',') -1;
temp[0] = '\0';
strcpy(partite->squadraCasa, data + 2);
data = temp+1;
// Get Away Team
temp = strchr(data+1, ',') -1;
temp[0] = '\0';
strcpy(partite->squadraOspite, data + 2);
data = temp + 1;
// Get Home Score
temp = strchr(data + 1, ',');
temp[0] = '\0';
partite->golSquadraCasa = atoi(data + 1);
data = temp + 1;
// Get Away Score
temp = strchr(data, '}');
temp[0] = '\0';
partite->golSquadraOspite = atoi(data);
// Return game
return partite;
}
int main()
{
FILE *fp;
partita **partite = malloc(sizeof(partita *)); // list of size one, currently...
risultato *risultati;
char linea[50];
int indice = 0;
if ((fp = fopen("./partiteSerieA1920.txt", "rt")) == NULL)
{
printf("Errore nell'apertura del file\n");
exit(1);
}
// For each linea in the file, load a game into an array.
while (fgets(linea, 50,fp))
{
//chomp the \n
linea[strlen(linea)-1]='\0';
// increase size of list
partite = realloc(partite, sizeof(partita *) * (indice + 1));
// insert game into array of games
partite[indice] = newGame(linea);
indice++;
}
risultati = getResult(partite, indice);
// Print risultato
printf("\n----RESULT----\nHome Wins: %d\nAway Wins: %d\nTies: %d\nTeam With Most Goals: %s\n\n", risultati->partite_casa, risultati->partite_ospite, risultati->pareggi, risultati->squad_magg_num_goal);
// free all allocated memory then return
for (int i = 0; i < indice;i++){
free(partite[i]);
}
free(partite);
free(risultati);
fclose(fp);
return 0;
}
I was trying to run your code but couldnt get it to parse data from the file properly so i made a quick parser for you (This is in the code above already):
partita *newGame(char *data){
partita *partite = malloc(sizeof(partita));
char* temp;
// Get Home Team
temp = strchr(data, ',') -1;
temp[0] = '\0';
strcpy(partite->squadraCasa, data + 2);
data = temp+1;
// Get Away Team
temp = strchr(data+1, ',') -1;
temp[0] = '\0';
strcpy(partite->squadraOspite, data + 2);
data = temp + 1;
// Get Home Score
temp = strchr(data + 1, ',');
temp[0] = '\0';
partite->golSquadraCasa = atoi(data + 1);
data = temp + 1;
// Get Away Score
temp = strchr(data, '}');
temp[0] = '\0';
partite->golSquadraOspite = atoi(data);
// Return game
return partite;
}
You can always try to use something similar to this to parse strings or lines that you bring in as I find it is more efficient to just code something that you know works to the specification you want.
Let me know if there is some problem with the code or would like to know more about the functionality of this. I tried to keep as much of this in Italian.
Cheers
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iv tried a lot of solutions to try to get this working (i.e using memcpy etc) I cant seem to find the issue, depending on what I try I either end up with gibberish or SEGV
iv spent a lot of time already googling and trying different ways, i still cant figure out why the arrays won't combine successfully
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <dirent.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#define log_info printf
typedef struct
{
char* name;
//size_t size;
} entry_t;
/* qsort struct comparison function (C-string field) */
static int struct_cmp_by_name(const void* a, const void* b)
{
entry_t* ia = (entry_t*)a;
entry_t* ib = (entry_t*)b;
return strcmp(ia->name, ib->name);
/* strcmp functions works exactly as expected from comparison function */
}
entry_t* get_item_entries(const char* dirpath, int* count)
{
struct dirent* dent;
char buffer[512]; // fixed buffer
int dfd = 0,
n, r = 1; // item counter, rounds to loop
entry_t* p = NULL; // we fill this struct with items
loop:
n = 0;
printf("loop: %d, count:%d\n", r, *count);
// try to open dir
dfd = open(dirpath, O_RDONLY, 0);
if (dfd < 0)
{
printf("Invalid directory. (%s)\n", dirpath);
*count = -1;
return NULL;
}
else
{
printf("open(%s)\n", dirpath);
}
memset(buffer, 0, sizeof(buffer));
while (syscall(SYS_getdents, dfd, buffer, sizeof(buffer)) != 0)
{
dent = (struct dirent*)buffer;
while (dent->d_fileno)
{ // skip `.` and `..`
if (!strncmp(dent->d_name, "..", 2)
|| !strncmp(dent->d_name, ".", 1)) goto skip_dent;
// deal with filtering outside of this function, we just skip .., .
switch (r)
{ // first round: just count items
case 1:
{
// skip special cases
if (dent->d_fileno == 0) goto skip_dent;
break;
}
// second round: store filenames
case 0: p[n].name = strdup(dent->d_name); break;
}
n++;
skip_dent:
dent = (struct dirent*)((void*)dent + dent->d_reclen);
if (dent == (void*)&buffer[512]) break; // refill buffer
}
memset(buffer, 0, sizeof(buffer));
}
close(dfd);
// on first round, calloc for our list
if (!p)
{ // now n holds total item count, note it
p = calloc(n, sizeof(entry_t));
*count = n;
}
// first round passed, loop
r--; if (!r) goto loop;
// report count
printf("%d items at %p, from 1-%d\n", *count, (void*)p, *count);
/* resort using custom comparision function */
qsort(p, *count, sizeof(entry_t), struct_cmp_by_name);
// report items
//for (int i = 0; i < num; ++i) log_error( "%s", p[i].name);
return p;
}
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
int HDD_count = -1;
uint32_t total = -1;
int ext_count = -1;
entry_t* e = NULL;
entry_t *HDD = get_item_entries("/mnt/f/n", &HDD_count);
entry_t* ext = get_item_entries("/mnt/f/dls", &ext_count);
total = ext_count + HDD_count;
e = (entry_t*)malloc(sizeof *e * total);
if (e != NULL)
{
for (int i = 1; i < HDD_count; i++)
{
log_info("HDD[%i].name %s\n", i, HDD[i].name);
e[i].name = strdup(HDD[i].name);
}
for (int i = 1; i < ext_count; i++)
{
log_info("ext[%i].name %s\n", i, ext[i].name);
e[i + HDD_count].name = strdup(ext[i].name);
}
}
else
printf("Failed to Allocate the Array");
char tmp[256];
int i = 1, j;
for(j = 1; j <= total; j++)
{
snprintf(&tmp[0], 255, "%s", e[ j].name);
log_info("%i:%s\n", j , tmp);
}
return 0;
}
Here is a rewrite of a snippet of main() that I mentioned in my comment above:
#define CHECK(p, msg) if(!(p)) { printf("%s:%d: %s", __FILE__, __LINE__, msg); return 1;}
...
entry_t *HDD = get_item_entries("/mnt/f/n", &HDD_count);
CHECK(HDD, "HDD failed to get entries");
entry_t *ext = get_item_entries("/mnt/f/dls", &ext_count);
CHECK(ext, "ext failed to get entries");
uint32_t total = HDD_count + ext_count;
entry_t *e = malloc(total * sizeof(*e));
CHECK(e, "malloc failed");
for(int i = 0; i < HDD_count; i++) {
log_info("HDD[%i].name %s\n", i, HDD[i].name);
e[i].name = strdup(HDD[i].name);
}
// write a function instead of duplicating code?
for (int i = 0; i < ext_count; i++) {
log_info("ext[%i].name %s\n", i, ext[i].name);
e[HDD_count + i].name = strdup(ext[i].name);
}
It looks like a short lived program, but I would still free the values from strdup() and e itself.
I am trying to divide the string with *, and return the divided strings, as follows.
abc*d*efg*hijk -> [abc,d,efg,hijk]
This is my code, where *pattern is the given string, and I first count the number of asterisk(cnt), and make a empty list with length cnt. But it keeps getting the error and I don't get it... Can anyone help me?
error message
value computed is not used (*star_cnt++;)
function returns address of local variable(return units;)
Number 2 is my main error. I can't return the list
int Slice(char *pattern) {
int *star_cnt;
int cnt;
*star_cnt = *pattern;
cnt = 0;
while (*star_cnt != '\0') {
if (*star_cnt == '*') {
cnt++;
}
*star_cnt++;
}
int units[cnt];
int *unit;
int unit_cnt;
unit_cnt = 0;
*unit = *pattern;
while (*unit != '\0') {
int *new_unit;
while (*unit != '*'){
*new_unit = *unit;
unit++;
new_unit++;
}
unit++;
units[unit_cnt] = *new_unit;
}
return units;
I felt there were a number of things wrong, and that looking at a working example might actually help a bit more here.
You could try something like this:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stddef.h>
#include <string.h>
/**
* #fn Slice()
* #param [IN] pattern - pointer to string to be analysed
* #param
* #return pointer to array for strings, array is terminated by NULL
* */
char** Slice(char *pattern) {
char *star_cnt;
int cnt;
char** resultlist;
star_cnt = pattern;
cnt = 0;
while (*star_cnt != '\0') {
if (*star_cnt == '*') {
cnt++;
}
star_cnt++;
}
printf("%d items\n",cnt+1);
resultlist = malloc(sizeof(char*) * (cnt+2));
memset(resultlist,0,sizeof(char*) * (cnt+2));
star_cnt = pattern;
cnt = 0;
resultlist[cnt] = star_cnt;
//printf("item %d: %s\n",cnt,resultlist[cnt]);
cnt++;
while (*star_cnt != '\0') {
if (*star_cnt == '*') {
*star_cnt = '\0';
resultlist[cnt] = star_cnt+1;
//printf("item %d: %s\n",cnt,resultlist[cnt]);
cnt++;
}
star_cnt++;
}
return resultlist;
}
int main()
{
char working_string[] = "abc*d*efg*hijk";
char* backup_string = strdup(working_string);
char** list = NULL;
list = Slice(working_string);
int i;
i = 0;
if (list != NULL)
{
while(list[i] != NULL)
{
printf("%d : %s\n",i,list[i]);
i++;
}
free(list);
}
printf("original_string = %s\n",backup_string);
free(backup_string);
}
It produces an output like this:
4 items
0 : abc
1 : d
2 : efg
3 : hijk
original_string = abc*d*efg*hijk
The Slice function basically returns a pointer to char* strings, and the array list is terminated with a NULL in the last element. Keep in mind that in this solution the original string is modified so it cannot be used again.
For storing and returning the result you can also define string container like:
struct c_str_container{
char **arr;
size_t size;
};
And then you can define functions like init_c_str_container, add_element_to_c_str_container and free_c_str_container for dealing with the container.
then you can write the substrings function with using strchr function for finding the delimiters and splitting the string in to sub-strings.
Finally you can use this function to create the container and then after displaying the result from the container (and possibly doing other things with the container) you free the allocated memory by the predefined function free_c_str_container:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
struct c_str_container{
char **arr;
size_t size;
};
void init_c_str_container(struct c_str_container *container){
container->arr = NULL;
container->size = 0;
}
int add_element_to_c_str_container(struct c_str_container *container, const char *txt, size_t length){
char **newarr = (char **) realloc(container->arr, (container->size + 1) * (sizeof(char *)));
if(!newarr){
newarr = (char **) malloc((container->size + 1) * (sizeof(char *)));
if(!newarr){
return -1;
}else{
for(size_t counter = container->size; counter--;){
newarr[counter] = container->arr[counter];
}
if(container->size){
free(container->arr);
}
}
}
newarr[container->size] = malloc((length + 1) * sizeof(char));
memcpy(newarr[container->size], txt, length);
newarr[container->size][length] = '\0';
container->arr = newarr;
++container->size;
return 0;
}
void free_c_str_container(struct c_str_container *container){
for(size_t counter = container->size; counter--;){
free(container->arr[counter]);
}
free(container->arr);
container->size = 0;
}
struct c_str_container substrings(const char *input, const char delimiter){
const char *input_end = input + strlen(input);
struct c_str_container container;
init_c_str_container(&container);
while(strchr(input, delimiter) == input){
++input;
}
const char *end_point;
while((end_point = strchr(input, delimiter))){
add_element_to_c_str_container(&container, input, (end_point - input));
while(strchr(end_point, delimiter) == end_point){
++end_point;
}
input = end_point;
}
if(input < input_end){
add_element_to_c_str_container(&container, input, (input_end - input));
}
return container;
}
int main(void) {
struct c_str_container container = substrings("***as***we*grow*up", '*');
printf("number of elements is : %zu\n", container.size);
for(size_t counter = 0; counter < container.size; ++counter){
printf("element %zu is : %s\n", counter, container.arr[counter]);
}
free_c_str_container(&container);
printf("now elements are : %zu\n", container.size);
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
for the test string ="***as***we*grow*up" delimeter = '*' the result of the program is:
number of elements is : 4
element 0 is : as
element 1 is : we
element 2 is : grow
element 3 is : up
now elements are : 0
I am not very skilled at C, especially the dynamic allocation bit of C and I´ve encountered this strange problem. Background is that I have to read input from a user, save it into struct that I defined like this:
typedef struct
{
int camera_ID;
int month;
int day;
int hour;
int min;
char rz[1001];
} cameraEntry;
and then save that struct into an array. Everything works fine, I am able to read the data, create said struct but when it comes to saving it into the array it crashes. I´ve tried assignign the values one by one and found out that the char array causes problems. I´ve tried assigning it char by char but there must be something else I am missing. Here is the code for reading and saving the user input and my main function:
int readEntry(cameraEntry **entries, int *maxN)
{
int n = 0, last = 0;
char brace;
*entries = malloc(*maxN * sizeof(cameraEntry *));
if (scanf("%c", &brace) != 1 || brace != '{')
return -1;
do
{
if (n >= *maxN)
{
*maxN = *maxN * 2;
*entries = realloc(*entries, *maxN * sizeof(cameraEntry *));
}
cameraEntry read = parseInput(&last);
if (read.camera_ID < 0)
return -1;
(*entries)[n].camera_ID = read.camera_ID;
(*entries)[n].month = read.month;
(*entries)[n].day = read.day;
(*entries)[n].hour = read.hour;
(*entries)[n].min = read.min;
//Without this line of code it works like charm
strcpy((*entries)[n].rz, read.rz);
n++;
} while (last == 0);
return n;
}
int main(void)
{
cameraEntry *entries = NULL;
int maxN = 2;
int n = readEntry(&entries, &maxN);
if (n < 0)
{
printf("Wrong input\n");
free(entries);
return 1;
}
printf("Entry count: %d\n", n);
free(entries);
return 0;
}
So please, if you can find the mistake in my code and explain why is it happening I would be very grateful.
I code C to get better in programming and study... and have program that should generate a static web-page. It also saves the project as a text-file. I have separate functions to make object (realloc and put a new struct...), and have extracted the problem-code to a short program for this occasion... It's just for reading the 'project'. When I run it says:
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
in the middle of the print_1_content
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#define SELL_ITEM 1
#define PARAGRAPH_ITEM 2
struct SellItem {
char title[50];
int nr_of_img;
char ** image_files;//array of strings
};
struct ParagraphItem{
char * text;
};
union ContentItem{//one of the following only
struct SellItem s_item;
struct ParagraphItem p_item;
};
struct Content{
int type;//1=sellitem 2=paragraph
union ContentItem c_item;
};
int open_items_file(struct Content **, int *, char *);
int free_1_item(struct Content *);
struct Content import_1_content(char *);
void increase(struct Content**, int *);
void print_1_content(struct Content *);
struct Content import_1_content(char *);
int free_1_item(struct Content *);
int main (void)
{
struct Content * content;
int content_count=0;
open_items_file(&content, &content_count, "all_items.txt");
return 0;
}
int open_items_file(struct Content ** content, int * number_of_content, char * filename){
printf("open_items_file %s\n", filename);
FILE *fp = fopen(filename, "r");
char * line = NULL;
size_t len = 0;
ssize_t read;
int counter=0;
if(fp==NULL){
return 0;
}
//for each row
while ((read = getline(&line, &len, fp)) != -1) {
if((line[0]=='S' || line[0]=='P') && line[1]=='-'){
if(line[3]==':'){
if(line[2]=='I'){
increase(content, number_of_content);
*content[(*number_of_content)-1] = import_1_content(line);
}
else{
//not sell/paragraph item
}
}//end if line[3]==':'
}//end if line[0] =='S' eller 'P'
counter++;
}
free(line);
fclose(fp);
return counter;
}
void increase(struct Content** content, int *nr_of_content){
if((*nr_of_content)==0){
*content = malloc(sizeof(struct Content));
}
else{
*content = realloc(*content, (*nr_of_content+1) * sizeof(struct Content));
}
(*nr_of_content)++;
}
void print_1_content(struct Content * content){
//Print info
}
struct Content import_1_content(char * text_line){
struct Content temp_content_item;
char * line_pointer = text_line;
char c;
line_pointer += 4;
if(text_line[0]=='S'){
temp_content_item.type = SELL_ITEM;
temp_content_item.c_item.s_item.nr_of_img=0;
int i=0;
char * temp_text;
while(*line_pointer != '|' && *line_pointer != '\n' && i < sizeof(temp_content_item.c_item.s_item.title)-1){
temp_content_item.c_item.s_item.title[i] = *line_pointer;
i++;//target index
line_pointer++;
}
temp_content_item.c_item.s_item.title[i]='\0';
i=0;
//maybe images?
short read_img_counter=0;
if(*line_pointer == '|'){
line_pointer++; //jump over '|'
//img-file-name separ. by ';', row ends by '\n'
while(*line_pointer != '\n'){//outer image filename -loop
i=0;
while(*line_pointer != ';' && *line_pointer != '\n'){//steps thr lett
c = *line_pointer;
if(i==0){//first letter
temp_text = malloc(2);
}
else if(i>0){
temp_text = realloc(temp_text, i+2);//extra for '\0'
}
temp_text[i] = c;
line_pointer++;
i++;
}
if(*line_pointer==';'){//another image
line_pointer++;//jump over ';'
}
else{
}
temp_text[i]='\0';
//allocate
if(read_img_counter==0){//create array
temp_content_item.c_item.s_item.image_files = malloc(sizeof(char*));
}
else{//extend array
temp_content_item.c_item.s_item.image_files = realloc(temp_content_item.c_item.s_item.image_files, sizeof(char*) * (read_img_counter+1));
}
//allocate
temp_content_item.c_item.s_item.image_files[read_img_counter] = calloc(i+1, 1);
//copy
strncpy(temp_content_item.c_item.s_item.image_files[read_img_counter], temp_text, strlen(temp_text));
read_img_counter++;
temp_content_item.c_item.s_item.nr_of_img = read_img_counter;
}
}
else{
printf("Item had no img-files\n");
}
}
else{ // text_line[0]=='P'
temp_content_item.type = PARAGRAPH_ITEM;
temp_content_item.c_item.p_item.text = calloc(strlen(text_line)-4,1);
int i=0;
while(*line_pointer != '\0' && *line_pointer != '\n'){
temp_content_item.c_item.p_item.text[i] = *line_pointer;
i++;
line_pointer++;
}
}
print_1_content(&temp_content_item);
return temp_content_item;
}
int free_1_item(struct Content * item){
if(item->type==SELL_ITEM){
if(item->c_item.s_item.nr_of_img > 0){
//Freeing img-names
for(int i=0; i<item->c_item.s_item.nr_of_img; i++){
free(item->c_item.s_item.image_files[i]);
}
}
return 1;
}
else if(item->type==PARAGRAPH_ITEM){
//freeing p_item
free(item->c_item.p_item.text);
return 1;
}
else{
printf("error: unknown item\n");
}
return 0;
}
The text file to read (all_items.txt) is like this, ends with a new-line, for the two content types of "sell-item" and "paragraph-item":
S-I:Shirt of cotton|image1.jpg;image2.jpg;image3.jpg
P-I:A paragraph, as they are called.
S-I:Trousers, loose style|image4.jpg
So the problem as you've discovered is on this line:
*content[(*number_of_content)-1] = temp_content_item2;
It's because of operate precedence because *content[(*number_of_content)-1] is not the same as (*content)[(*number_of_content)-1], it's actually doing *(content[(*number_of_content)-1]). So your code is doing the array indexing and then de-referencing which is pointing at some random place in memory. Replace that line with this and that will fix the current problem.
(*content)[(*number_of_content)-1] = temp_content_item2;
I am trying to code an algorithm in C that reads a huge file ( more than 750.000 lines) , separates each line by some specified delimiters , and saves the data into a structure , which is then saved into a Hashtable. Everything goes fine until I want to print one specific data for each row of the Hashtable: the output is good for some rows , but the console is just printing some random symbols for others (which means memory leaks maybe? ).
I am trying to figure what can cause this problem. If I isolate the code that separate the line and saves it into the structure, and execute it for each line separately, it works fine, everything is printed as expected.
I have also tried to do it without dynamic allocation but it works a bit better with it as I was getting the infamous "Segmentation fault"
Here is the code that splits the line and saves it:
unsigned int hash(unsigned int id) {
unsigned int hashage = 5381; //Valeur arbitraire
unsigned int mdop = 10; //faire un modulo obtenir l'unite
int idtmp = id;
while (mdop < id) {
idtmp = id%mdop;
hashage = ((hashage << 6) + hashage) + idtmp;
mdop *= 10;
}
return hashage % NB_CASES_HASH;
}
void initiate_hashtable(Hashtable hashtable) {
int i = 0;
for (; i < NB_CASES_HASH; i++) {
hashtable[i] = NULL;
}
}
void ajout_entete(Liste *liste, Oeuvre *oeuvre) {
Liste p = malloc(sizeof(Cellule));
if (!p) exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
p->oeuvre = *oeuvre;
p->suiv = *liste;
//Si on imprime ici , tout va bien , les données sont correctes
*liste = p;
}
void ajout_annee(Liste *liste, Oeuvre *oeuvre) { //ajout trié par année pour recherche plus rapide
if (!(*liste) || oeuvre->year <= (*liste)->oeuvre.year)
ajout_entete(liste,oeuvre);
else {
if (oeuvre->year >= (*liste)->oeuvre.year)
ajout_annee(&(*liste)->suiv, &oeuvre);
}
}
Oeuvre peuple_oeuvre(char line[MAX_CHARS_LINE]) {
int i = 0, j = 1, cmpt = 0;
char strings[CHAMPS_OEUVRE][MAX_SIZE];
char carac = *(line);
char mot[MAX_SIZE];
mot[0] = carac;
bool isSuivi = false;
Oeuvre oeuvre;
while (carac != '\n') {
if (carac == ',') {
if(isSuivi) {
mot[j - 1] = '\"';
mot[j] = '\0';
isSuivi = false;
} else
mot[j - 1] = '\0';
strcpy(strings[i], mot);
j = 0;
i++;
} else
if (carac == '\"') {
cmpt++;
carac = *(line + cmpt);
while (carac != '\"') {
mot[j] = carac;
j++;
cmpt++;
carac = *(line + cmpt);
}
isSuivi = true;
}
cmpt++;
carac = *(line + cmpt);
mot[j] = carac;
j++;
}
mot[j] = '\0';
strcpy(strings[i], mot);
//Assignation des valeurs :
oeuvre.id = atoi(strings[0]);
oeuvre.accession_number = strdup(strings[1]);
oeuvre.artiste.nomArtiste = strdup(strings[2]);
oeuvre.artiste.artistRole = strdup(strings[3]);
oeuvre.artiste.artistId = atoi(strings[4]);
oeuvre.titre = strdup(strings[5]);
oeuvre.url = strdup(strings[CHAMPS_OEUVRE]);
oeuvre.year = atoi(strings[9]);
return oeuvre;
}
void peuple_hashtable(Hashtable hashtable) { // Peuplement par redirection
char ligne[MAX_CHARS_LINE];
fgets(ligne, MAX_CHARS_LINE, stdin);
Oeuvre *oeuvre = malloc(sizeof(Oeuvre));
int hashNum;
while (fgets(ligne, MAX_CHARS_LINE, stdin)) {
*oeuvre = peuple_oeuvre(ligne);
hashNum = hash(oeuvre->artiste.artistId);
ajout_annee(&hashtable[hashNum], oeuvre);
}
}
int main() {
Hashtable hashtable;
initiate_hashtable(hashtable);
peuple_hashtable(hashtable);
return 0;
}
And the Oeuvre structure looks like this :
typedef struct oeuvre {
unsigned int id;
char *accession_number;
Artiste artiste;
char *titre;
int year;
char *url;
} Oeuvre;
typedef Liste Hashtable[NB_CASES_HASH];
Thanks in advance.
There are many problems in your code.
If line does not contain a newline or if a double quote is missing, the behavior is undefined.
You do not initialize the string array: if the description has missing fields, the behavior is undefined.
In the part where you save the structure fields, your allocation code is incorrect: you must allocate one more character than the length of the string, strlen(string[0]) + 1 instead of strlen(string[0]) * sizeof(char*).
It would be much simpler to use the POSIX function strdup():
// Assigning the values:
oeuvre.id = atoi(strings[0]);
oeuvre.accession_number = strdup(strings[1]);
oeuvre.artiste.nomArtiste = strdup(strings[2]);
oeuvre.artiste.artistRole = strdup(strings[3]);
oeuvre.artiste.artistId = atoi(strings[4]);
oeuvre.titre = strdup(strings[5]);
oeuvre.url = strdup(strings[CHAMPS_OEUVRE]));
oeuvre.year = atoi(strings[9]);
Solved my issue by declaring the Oeuvre structure like this
typedef struct oeuvre {
unsigned int id;
char accession_number[MAX_CHARS];
Artiste artiste;
char titre[MAX_CHARS];
int year;
char url[MAX_CHARS];
} Oeuvre;
with MAX_CHARS referring to a large number.
So I believe I was not properly allocating the strings before using them, which made them to point to random adresses , resulting in those weird outputs but no error. I also believe that another way of solving this would be to dynamically allocate the chars for each Oeuvre in my function.