How to read and print end of data issuance.csv file? - c

I need to read data store in end of file and print it.
My input file has many numbers, and I have to read last number,
can any one help me??
int main()
{
FILE *fp;
fp = fopen("f:\\Issuance.csv", "a");
if (!fp)
{
printf("can not open file \n");
getchar();
exit(1);
}
int Size = 30;
char FileInfo[100];
fseek( fp , 0 , SEEK_END);
fread(FileInfo, 1, Size, fp);
printf("%d",FileInfo);
}
fcloseall();
}

You need to use the 2nd parameter of fseek().
fseek(fp, -Size, SEEK_END);
fread(FileInfo, 1, Size, fp);
FileInfo[Size] = '\0'; // NULL terminate FileInfo; or declare as char FileInfo[100] = {0};
printf("%s", FileInfo);

To read the last number in a text file (which may have additional junk after it), starting from the beginning, attempt to read a number. If successful, save it, else toss 1 char. Continue until the end of the file.
// Read last number
int ReadLastNumber(FILE *inf, int default_value) {
int last = default_value;
int num;
int cnt;
rewind(inf);
while ((cnt = fscanf(inf,"%d", &num)) != EOF) {
if (cnt == 1) {
last = num;
} else {
fgetc(inf); // toss non-numeric char
}
}
return last;
}
A more sane solution would fseek() to the end, search backwards for digits. Once some digits are found, continue backwards looking for digits, +or -. Something like the following untested code.
#include <ctype.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
// Read last number
int ReadLastNumber2(FILE *inf, int default_value) {
int last = 0;
int place = 1;
bool digit_found = false;
long offset = -1;
while (fseek(inf, offset, SEEK_CUR) == 0) {
int ch = fgetc(inf);
if (ch == EOF) // Likely I/O error
return default_value;
if (isdigit(ch)) {
digit_found = true;
last += (ch - '0')*place;
place *= 10;
offset = -2;
} else if (ch == '-') {
return -last;
} else if (digit_found) {
return last;
}
}
return default_value;
}
Not protected against int overflow.

Related

Reading, a set line range from a file in C

I' am writing a C program which allows the user to dynamically specify the File name from which the data is to be read. Next the user enters a lower bound and an upper bound. The data in the lines from between the bounds is to be printed.
For this the main function makes a call: readValues(cTargetName, iLower, iHiger);
The function readValues is supposed to work as follows:
Check if file exist, if yes. Open it with fopen
Read with feof and fgets line by line the whole file, and store each line in char string
With a for loop, print the correct range of lines from the string
I'm not sure why but the while loop doesn't seem to exit although I use the feof statement, which should terminate after the end of the File is reached.
The code looks as follows:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
void readValues(char cFileName[75], int n, int m)
{
//Variable declaration;
char strArray[50][50];
char *parser;
int i = 0;
FILE *Data;
if(Data = fopen(cFileName, "rt") == NULL){
printf("File could not be opened");
return 1; //Can you return 1 in a void function?
}
//Read the file line by line
while(feof(Data)==0){
fgets(strArray[i], 200, Data);
i++;
}
//Reading the specified lines
for(n; n<=m; n++){
printf("%s", strArray[n]);
}
}
int main()
{
char cTargetName[75] = {"C:/Users/User1/Desktop/C_Projects_1/TestData.txt"};
int iLower = 2;
int iHiger = 4;
readValues(cTargetName, iLower, iHiger);
return 0;
}
All help is appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Here is my solution to your question:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#define MIN_LINE_LENGTH 64
typedef enum {
false, true
} bool;
int main() {
char filename[PATH_MAX] = {0};
printf("Enter filename:\n");
fgets(filename, PATH_MAX, stdin); // get filename from stdin
char *ptr = filename;
while (*ptr) { // remove trailing newline at the end of filename (fgets() includes newline)
if (*ptr == '\n') {
*ptr = 0;
}
++ptr;
}
printf("Enter starting line and end line, separated by a space:\n");
size_t startLine = 0;
size_t endLine = 0;
bool hasFirstNum = false;
bool hasSecondNum = false;
bool hasMiddleSpace = false;
bool hasLastSpace = false;
size_t numCount = 0;
int ch;
while ((ch = fgetc(stdin)) != EOF && ch != '\n') { // continually receive chars from stdin
if (ch != 32 && !(ch >= 48 && ch <= 57)) { // if not a space or number, raise error
fprintf(stderr, "Only numerical values (and spaces) can be entered.\n");
return 1;
}
if (ch == 32) {
if (hasFirstNum) {
hasMiddleSpace = true;
}
if (hasSecondNum) {
hasLastSpace = true;
}
continue;
}
else if (!hasFirstNum) {
++numCount;
hasFirstNum = true;
}
else if (!hasSecondNum && hasMiddleSpace) {
++numCount;
hasSecondNum = true;
}
else if (hasLastSpace) {
++numCount;
}
if (numCount == 1) {
startLine *= 10;
startLine += ch - 48; // '0' character in ASCII is 48
}
else if (numCount == 2){
endLine *= 10;
endLine += ch - 48;
}
else {
break;
}
}
FILE *fp = fopen(filename, "r");
if (fp == NULL) {
fprintf(stderr, "Error opening file.\n");
return 1;
}
char **lines = malloc(sizeof(char *));
char *line = malloc(MIN_LINE_LENGTH);
*lines = line;
int c;
size_t char_count = 0;
size_t line_count = 1;
while ((c = fgetc(fp)) != EOF) { // continually get chars from file stream
if (c == '\n') { // expand lines pointer if a newline is encountered
*(line + char_count) = 0;
++line_count;
lines = realloc(lines, line_count*sizeof(char *));
line = (*(lines + line_count - 1) = malloc(MIN_LINE_LENGTH));
char_count = 0;
continue;
}
if ((char_count + 1) % MIN_LINE_LENGTH == 0 && char_count != 0) { // expand line pointer if needed
line = realloc(line, char_count + MIN_LINE_LENGTH);
}
*(line + char_count) = c;
++char_count;
}
*(line + char_count) = 0; // to ensure the last line always ends with the null byte
if (startLine >= line_count) { // raise error if starting line specified is greater than num. of lines in doc.
fprintf(stderr, "Specified starting line is less than total lines in document.\n");
return 1;
}
if (endLine > line_count) { // adjust ending line if it is greater than number of lines in doc.
endLine = line_count;
}
if (startLine == 0) { // we will be using the starting index of 1 as the first line
startLine = 1;
}
char **linesPtr = lines + startLine - 1;
while (startLine++ <= endLine) { // print lines
printf("%s\n", *linesPtr++);
}
for (size_t i = 0; i < line_count; ++i) { // free all memory
free(*(lines + i));
}
free(lines);
return 0;
}
It is a little more convoluted, but because it uses dynamic memory allocation, it can handle lines of any length within a text file.
If there is anything unclear, please let me know and I would be happy to explain.
Hope this helps!!
several issues here,
first, you limited the length of lines to 200, not exactly what you might expect to get.
the fgets function returns lines up to specified length unless hit by newline character - this should be taken into account.
additionally, fgets returns NULL if you hit EOF - no real need to use feof.
second, you could save yourself a lot of pain and simply count the number of times you get a string, and for the times you are within the range just print it immediately. will save you a nice amount of overhead
like this:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#define MAXLINE 200//or anything else you want
void readValues(char cFileName[75], int n, int m)
{
//Variable declaration;
char line[MAXLINE];
int i = 0;
FILE *Data;
if((Data = fopen(cFileName, "rt")) == NULL){
printf("File could not be opened");
return 1; //Can you return 1 in a void function?
}
//Read the file line by line and print within range of lines
while((line=fgets(line, MAXLINE,Data))!=NULL){//terminates upon EOF
if (++i>=n&&i<=m)
printf(""%s\n",line);
}
}

Check if file contains content from another file C

So I'm working on a project, and I need to check whether or not a certain file contains the contents of another file.
I made a function in c (It's c not c++) to try and to it but it seems to get into an infinite loop and not work overall, I tried using the Visual Studio debugger, and it didn't give me more info.
Note: I am including stdlib.h
the code:
int findFileInFile(const char* wherePath, const char* whatPath)
{
FILE* fpBigger = fopen(wherePath, "r");
FILE* fpSmaller = fopen(whatPath, "r");
if (fpBigger != NULL && fpSmaller != NULL)
{
unsigned char cs = 0;
unsigned char cb = 0;
while ((cb = fgetc(fpBigger)) != EOF)
{
cs = fgetc(fpSmaller);
if (cs == EOF)
return 1;
if (cs != cb)
{
fseek(fpSmaller, 0L, SEEK_SET);
}
}
return 0;
}
else
{
printf("File names are wrong!\n");
exit(-1);
}
}
Thank you.
I guess this is what you're looking for:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int findFileInFile(const char *wherePath, const char *whatPath)
{
FILE *fpBigger = fopen(wherePath, "rb");
FILE *fpSmaller = fopen(whatPath, "rb");
if (fpBigger != NULL && fpSmaller != NULL)
{
unsigned char cs = 0;
unsigned char cb = 0;
int s;
int b;
while (1)
{
b = fgetc(fpBigger);
s = fgetc(fpSmaller);
if (s == EOF && b == EOF) //if both return values from fgetc are EOF, it means you've reached the end of the file which wouldn't have been possible if both of the files weren't equal
{
return 1;
}
else if (s == EOF || b == EOF)
{
return 0;
}
cs=(unsigned char)s; //casting the int to unsigned char
cb=(unsigned char)b; //casting the int to unsigned char
if (cs != cb) //compare the characters gotten from the files, if not equal, return 0
{
return 0;
}
}
}
else
{
printf("File names are wrong!\n");
exit(-1);
}
}
int main()
{
printf("%d", findFileInFile("file1.txt", "file2.txt"));
}
Last but not the least, you can also use feof() to check if the end of file stream has been reached.
Edit: (this may not be the most optimal solution but it checks if the bigger file contains the smaller file)
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int findFileInFile(const char *wherePath, const char *whatPath)
{
FILE *fpBigger = fopen(wherePath, "rb");
FILE *fpSmaller = fopen(whatPath, "rb");
unsigned char cs = 0;
unsigned char cb = 0;
int s;
int b;
int loc;
if (fpBigger != NULL && fpSmaller != NULL)
{
s = fgetc(fpSmaller);
cs=(unsigned char)s;
while((b=fgetc(fpBigger))!=EOF){ //checks for the first instance of the first character of the smaller file in the bigger file
cb=(unsigned char)b;
if(cs==cb){
loc=ftell(fpBigger)-1; //set loc to the position where the first character of the smaller file is found in the bigger file
break;
}
}
if(b==EOF){ //if the character is not found, return 0
return 0;
}
fseek(fpBigger,loc,SEEK_SET);
rewind(fpSmaller);
while((b=fgetc(fpBigger))!=EOF){
if((s=fgetc(fpSmaller))==EOF){ //check if the end of smaller file is reached, and return 1 if true
return 1;
}
cs=(unsigned char)s;
cb=(unsigned char)b;
if(cs!=cb){
rewind(fpSmaller); //if the characters gotten from both the files are not equal, go to the very beginning of smaller file
loc++; //increase the position to start the search from in the bigger file by 1
fseek(fpBigger,loc,SEEK_SET);
}
}
if(b==EOF&&fgetc(fpSmaller)==EOF){
return 1;
}
return 0;
}
else
{
printf("File names are wrong!\n");
exit(-1);
}
}
int main()
{
printf("%d", findFileInFile("file1.txt", "file2.txt"));
}

Print the user input strings into a least sized user input files

Program should read list of filenames, open these files and put their handles in the array of structure, then read strings and print consecutive lines of strings to smallest files by using handles contained in array of structures.
My program puts data from all lines to only one file which is initially the smallest which is false because it should the one which is smallest with every time it prints data into the file. This is my program:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <math.h>
struct file_t
{
FILE* f;
int size;
}t[5];
void close_file(struct file_t* f) {
if (f == NULL || f->f == NULL) {
}
else {
fclose(f->f);
}
}
int open_file(struct file_t* f, const char* filename) {
if (f == NULL || filename == NULL) {
return 1;
}
FILE* fp;
fp = fopen(filename, "ab");
if (fp == NULL) {
return 2;
}
long int res = ftell(fp);
fclose(fp);
f->size = res;
f->f = fopen(filename, "ab+");
if (fp == NULL) {
return 2;
}
return 0;
}
struct file_t* find_min(const struct file_t* files, int size) {
if (files == NULL || size <= 0) {
return NULL;
}
int x = (files + 0)->size, i = 0, index = 0;
for (i = 0; i < size; i++) {
if ((files + i)->size <= x) {
x = (files + i)->size;
index = i;
}
}
return (struct file_t*)(files + index);
}
int main() {
puts("Input files' names:");
char tab[100];
int num = 0;
while(1==1){
if(fgets(tab, 100, stdin)==NULL||*tab=='\n'){
if (num == 0) {
printf("Couldn't open file");
return 4;
}
break;
}
int index=strlen(tab);
*(tab+index-1)='\x0';
if (strlen(tab) > 30) {
*(tab + 30) = '\x0';
}
if (open_file((t + num), tab) > 0) {
}
else {
num++;
}
}
if (num == 0) {
printf("Couldn't open file");
return 4;
}
char str[1000];
printf("Input text:");
*str = '\x0';
while (fgets(str, 1000, stdin)==NULL||*str!='\n') {
int index=strlen(str);
*(str+index-1)='\x0';
struct file_t* p = find_min(t, num);
fwrite(str, sizeof(char), strlen(str), p->f);
}
for (int i = 0; i < num; i++) {
close_file(t + i);
}
printf("File saved");
return 0;
}
There are some critical bugs that you need to resolve.
fseek(stdin, 0, SEEK_END) -- fseek normally only work on a disk file, or something reasonably similar. Please refer to this link Using fseek with a file pointer that points to stdin
As a matter of fact even fflush() won't work. fflush is something that is designed for flushing output streams, and its behavior with input streams is implementation-dependent. Please refer to this link for more details stdinflush
scanf("%[^\n]s", tab)
If you are using this in a loop or multiple times, only the first read will succeed. The reason being, the \n character is left out from the previous input, and as said earlier fflush() might not be successful in removing that \n. The further calls to scanf() will simply return without reading anything.
'\0x' If you are intending to use this as string terminator then this is not it. It is a multi-character constant with an integer value 120. Below is a vague test run
Code
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
if ('\0' == '\0x' )
printf("both are same\n");
printf("%d",'\0x');
}
Compilation Warnings
test.c: In function ‘main’:
test.c:5:14: warning: multi-character character constant [-Wmultichar]
5 | if ('\0' == '\0x' )
| ^~~~~
test.c:8:14: warning: multi-character character constant [-Wmultichar]
8 | printf("%d",'\0x');
| ^~~~~
Output
120
fseek(fp, 0, SEEK_END); ftell(fp); -- This should not be used to determine the file sizes. The behavior of the fseek() with SEEK_END is undetermined in the case of binary files. Please refer to this link Do not use fseek() and ftell() to compute the size of a regular file
Some Logic Errors
1) You should compute the file size every time in find_min() as it gets changed whenever you write data to the file.
2) fwrite()won't actually dump the data to file immediately. you need to call fflush().
After resolving the above issues, this is the modified code.
Code
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
struct file_t
{
FILE* f;
int size;
}t[5];
void close_file(struct file_t* f) {
if (f == NULL || f->f == NULL) {
}
else {
fclose(f->f);
}
}
int open_file(struct file_t* f, const char* filename) {
if (f == NULL || filename == NULL) {
return 1;
}
f->f = fopen(filename, "a");
if (f->f == NULL)
return 2;
struct stat statbuf;
fstat(fileno(f->f), &statbuf);
f->size = statbuf.st_size;
return 0;
}
struct file_t* find_min(const struct file_t* files, int size) {
if (files == NULL || size <= 0) {
return NULL;
}
struct stat statbuf;
fstat(fileno(files->f), &statbuf);
int x = statbuf.st_size, i = 0, index = 0;
for (i = 0; i < size; i++) {
fstat(fileno((files+i)->f), &statbuf);
if (statbuf.st_size < x) {
x = statbuf.st_size;
index = i;
}
}
return (struct file_t*)(files + index);
}
int main() {
puts("Input files' names:");
char tab[100];
int num = 0;
while(1){
int c;
while (1) {
c = getc(stdin);
if (c == EOF || c == ' ')
goto user_input;
if(c != '\n')
break;
}
tab[0] = c;
if (scanf("%[^\n]s", tab+1) == EOF)
break;
if (*tab == '\0') {
if (num == 0) {
printf("Couldn't open file");
return 4;
}
break;
}
if (strlen(tab) > 30) {
*(tab + 30) = '\0';
}
if (open_file((t + num), tab) > 0) {
}
else {
num++;
}
*tab = '\0';
}
user_input:
if (num == 0) {
printf("Couldn't open file");
return 4;
}
fflush(stdin);
char str[1000];
printf("Input text:\n");
*str = '\0';
while(1) {
int c;
while(1) {
c = getc(stdin);
if (c == EOF)
goto main_exit;
if (c != '\n')
break;
}
str[0] = c;
if (scanf("%[^\n]s", str+1) == EOF)
break;
struct file_t* p = find_min(t, num);
fwrite(str, sizeof(char), strlen(str), p->f);
fflush(p->f);
}
main_exit:
for (int i = 0; i < num; i++) {
close_file(t + i);
}
printf("File saved");
return 0;
}
Terminal Session
$ ./a.out
Input files' names:
test file1.txt
test file2.txt
' '(NOTE: Space character inputted before pressing enter.)
Input text:
this is
stackoverflow
File saved
test file1.txt
this is
test file2.txt
stackoverflow
Note for breaking from the first loop (Files input). You need to enter space and then press enter (You can tweak around this).
Where are you updating the file_t->size when you write into a file?
You are calling this:
fwrite(str, sizeof(char), strlen(str), p->f);
But after that you should do p->size += strlen(str) to update its size, otherwise all file sizes are set to initial values, and hence all strings get written to a single file.
As for getting garbage data, try printing the string you are reading from scanf in the while loop.
You are using scanf to read characters until '\n', but you are not reading the '\n' itself. You need a fseek(stdin, 0, SEEK_END); in that loop as well.
Finally, why are you using syntax like this:
(files + i)->size
When you can call it more cleanly like this:
files[i].size
You code is really hard to read because of this.

Is there any way to shift content of a file without storing it in array in c?

I am trying to replace words from a file, This works fine with words of the same length.
I know it can be done by storing content in a temporary array and then shifting but I was wondering if it can be done without using array.
#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
char s1[20], s2[20];
FILE *fp = fopen(argv[1], "r+");
strcpy(s1, argv[2]);
strcpy(s2, argv[3]);
int l, i;
while(fscanf(fp, "%s", s1)!=EOF){
if(strcmp(s1, argv[2]) == 0){
l = strlen(s2);
fseek(fp, -l, SEEK_CUR);
i=0;
while(l>0){
fputc(argv[3][i], fp);
i++;
l--;
}
}
}
}
Here is my code for replacing same length words, what can I modify here for different lengths?
Assuming that the OP's goal is to avoid storing the whole content of the file into a byte array (maybe not enough memory) and he also said that it needs to "shift" the file's content, so it cannot use a temp file to make the text replacement (perhaps not enough room in the storage device).
Note that copying into a temp file would be the easiest method.
So as I can see the solution has two algorithms:
Shift to left: Replace a text with another of equal or smaller length.
Shift to right: Replace a text with a longer one.
Shift to left:
Maintain 2 file position pointers: one for the read position (rdPos) and another for the write position (wrPos).
Both start in zero.
read char from rdPos until find the oldText and write it into the wrPos (but only if rdPos != wrPos to avoid unnecessary write operations).
write the newText into wrPos.
repeat from step 3 until EOF.
if len(oldText) > len(newText) then truncate the file
Shift to right:
Maintain 2 file position pointers: (rdPos and wrPos).
scan the whole file to find the number of the oldText occurrences.
store their file positions into a small array (not strictly needed, but useful to avoid a second reverse scan of the oldText)
set rdPos = EOF-1 (the last char in the file)
set wrPos = EOF+foundCount*(len(newText)-len(oldText)): reserving enough extra space for the shifting.
read char from rdPos until find the position in the "found" array and write the char into the wrPos.
write the newText into wrPos.
repeat from step 6 until BOF.
I wrote the following implementation as an example of the mentioned algorithms, but without caring too much about validations and edge cases.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#define MAX_ITEMS 100
#define DO_WRITE 0x01
#define DO_FIND 0x02
FILE *fp;
long rdPos = 0L, wrPos = 0L, rdCount=0L, wrCount=0L;
int newLen, oldLen;
char *newText, *oldText;
struct found_t { int len; long pos[MAX_ITEMS];} found;
/* helper functions */
void writeChars(char *buffer, int len){
if(wrPos < rdPos){
long p = ftell(fp);
fseek(fp, wrPos, SEEK_SET);
fwrite(buffer, len, 1, fp);
fseek(fp, p, SEEK_SET);
wrCount += len;
}
wrPos += len;
}
int nextReadChar = -1;
int readChar(){
int c;
if(nextReadChar == EOF) {
if((c = fgetc(fp)) != EOF)
rdCount++;
} else {
c = nextReadChar;
nextReadChar = EOF;
}
return c;
}
int findFirstChar(int action){
int c; char ch;
for(; (c = readChar()) != EOF && c != (int)oldText[0]; rdPos++)
if(action == DO_WRITE) {
ch = (char)c;
writeChars(&ch, 1);
}
return c;
}
int testOldText(int c, int action){
char *cmp;
for(cmp = oldText; *cmp != '\0' && c == (int)*cmp; cmp++)
c = readChar();
nextReadChar = c;
if(*cmp == '\0') { /* found oldText */
if(action == DO_FIND)
found.pos[found.len++] = rdPos;
rdPos += oldLen;
if(action == DO_WRITE){
writeChars(newText, newLen);
found.len++;
}
}
else { /* some chars were equal */
if(action == DO_WRITE)
writeChars(oldText, cmp-oldText);
rdPos += cmp-oldText;
}
return c;
}
void writeReverseBlock(long firstCharPos){
for(;rdPos >= firstCharPos+oldLen; rdPos--, wrPos--, rdCount++, wrCount++){
int c;
fseek(fp, rdPos, SEEK_SET); c = fgetc(fp);
fseek(fp, wrPos, SEEK_SET); fputc(c, fp);
}
rdPos = firstCharPos-1;
wrPos -= newLen-1;
fseek(fp, wrPos--, SEEK_SET);
fwrite(newText, newLen, 1, fp);
wrCount += newLen;
}
void scanFile(int action){
int c;
do {
if( (c = findFirstChar(DO_WRITE)) == EOF ) break;
}while(testOldText(c, DO_WRITE) != EOF);
}
/** Main Algorithms */
void shiftToLeft(){
scanFile(DO_WRITE);
fflush(fp);
ftruncate(fileno(fp), wrPos);
}
void shiftToRight(){
int i;
scanFile(DO_FIND);
wrPos = --rdPos + found.len * (newLen-oldLen); /* reserve space after EOF */
for(i=found.len-1; i>=0; i--)
writeReverseBlock(found.pos[i]);
}
/* MAIN program */
int main(int argc, char **argv){
if(argc != 4){
fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s file.ext oldText newText\n", argv[0]);
return 1;
}
if(!(fp = fopen(argv[1], "r+b"))) {
fprintf(stderr, "Cannot open file '%s'\n", argv[1]);
return 2;
}
oldLen = strlen(oldText = strdup(argv[2]));
newLen = strlen(newText = strdup(argv[3]));
found.len = 0;
/* which algorithm? */
if(newLen <= oldLen) shiftToLeft();
else shiftToRight();
fclose(fp);
printf("%7d occurrences\n"
"%7ld bytes read\n"
"%7ld bytes written\n", found.len, rdCount, wrCount);
return 0;
}

Count paragraph in file

i am working in file system in that i am counting paragraph from the file but
i am not getting please suggest me how can i do that i tried this but not getting what i want
int main()
{
FILE *fp=fopen("200_content.txt ","r");
int pCount=0;
char c;
while ((c=fgetc(fp))!=EOF)
{
if(c=='\n'){pCount++;}
else{continue;}
}
printf("%d",pCount);
return 0;
}
You should declare c as int instead of char.
Also, remember to fclose(fp); before main() returns.
A paragraph contains two subsequent '\n's, use a variable for counting the two '\n's, like this,
int main()
{
FILE *fp=fopen("200_content.txt ","r");
int pCount=0;
char c;
int newln_cnt=0;
while ((c=fgetc(fp))!=EOF)
{
if(c=='\n')
{
newln_cnt++;
if(newln_cnt==2)
{
pCount++;
newln_cnt=0;
}
}
else{continue;}
}
printf("%d",pCount);
return 0;
}
You code counts the number of newline '\n' characters, not empty line which demarcates the paragraphs. Use fgets to read lines from the file. I suggest this -
#include <stdio.h>
// maximum length a line can have in the file.
// +1 for the terminating null byte added by fgets
#define MAX_LEN 100+1
int main(void) {
char line[MAX_LEN];
FILE *fp = fopen("200_content.txt", "r");
if(fp == NULL) {
printf("error in opening the file\n");
return 1;
}
int pcount = 0;
int temp = 0;
while(fgets(line, sizeof line, fp) != NULL) {
if(line[0] == '\n') {
// if newline is found and temp is 1 then
// this means end of the paragraph. increase
// the paragraph counter pcount and set temp to 0
if(temp == 1)
pcount++;
temp = 0;
}
else {
// if a non-empty line is found, this means
// the start of the paragraph
temp = 1;
}
}
// if the last para doesn't end with empty line(s)
if(temp == 1)
pcount++;
printf("number of para in the file is %d\n", pcount);
return 0;
}
For starters, I assume that you consider a new line to be a new paragraph.
i.e.
This is line 1.
This is line 2.
has 2 paragraphs.
What your code does is neglect the case where there is an EOF and not a newline character (\n) after This is line 2.
One way to fix this is to use an extra char variable.
int main()
{
FILE *fp=fopen("200_content.txt ","r");
int pCount=0;
char c; // char that checks
char last_c; //record of the last character read in the loop
while ((c=fgetc(fp))!=EOF)
{
if(c=='\n'){pCount++;}
last_c = c;
else{continue;} //this line is redundant. You can remove it
}
if (last_c != '\n') pCount++; //if EOF at the end of line and not '\n'
printf("%d",pCount);
return 0;
}
void analyze_file(const char *filename) {
FILE* out_file;
out_file = fopen(filename,"r");
int size;
if(out_file == NULL)
{
printf("Error(analyze_file): Could not open file %s\n",filename);
return;
}
fseek(out_file,0,SEEK_SET);
char ch,ch1;
int alpha_count = 0,num_count = 0,non_alnum =0,charac=0;
int word_count =0,line=0;
int para=0;
while(!feof(out_file))
{
ch = fgetc(out_file);
if (isalpha(ch))
alpha_count++;
else if(isdigit(ch))
num_count++;
else if(!isalnum(ch) && ch!='\n' && !isspace(ch))
++non_alnum;
else if(ch=='\n')
{ line++;
ch1 = fgetc(out_file);// courser moves ahead , as we read
fseek(out_file,-1,SEEK_CUR); // bringing courser back
}
else if(ch == ch1)
{para++; //paragraph counter
word_count--;
}
if(ch==' '||ch=='\n')
{
word_count++;
}
if(ch==EOF)
{
word_count++;line++;para++;
}
}
non_alnum -=1;// EOF character subtracted.
charac = alpha_count + non_alnum + num_count;
fclose(out_file);
printf("#Paragraphs = %d\n",para);
printf("#lines = %d\n",line);
printf("#Words = %d\n",word_count);
printf("#Characters = %d\n",charac);
printf("Alpha = %d\n",alpha_count);
printf("Numerical = %d\n",num_count);
printf("Other = %d\n",non_alnum);
printf("\n");
return;
}

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