fscanf doesn't work

[dAND3h]

I don't understand this, I am trying to read data from a file, It just does not work!!

while( true ) {
		int vals_read = fscanf(fileHandle,"%[^;]%s",&name,&pass);
		if( vals_read == 2 ) {
			// process the line
			table.Insert(pass,name);
		} else if( feof( fileHandle ) )
			break;
	}

I have also tried using "%s %s","%s:%s", "%[^;];%s"

My file will be consisting of a Name and a Password, both will be strings.
This is how my file looks now: Andy;TEST

While debugging, I find the pass variable is a single "T" and the name has nothing in it.

Also while debugging, if I check the status of fileHandle(my file) it has this "value" : fileHandle = 0x1035e4f8 {_ptr=0x003d7390 "Andy;TESTÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ...


Please help

[userulluipeste]

The information you gave is insufficient. I'm trying to figure out what you omitted, but I don't like guessing and this is definitely an impediment in giving you a clear solution. So I suppose that you have:

FILE *fileHandle;
std::string name, pass;
int vals_read;
std::vector<???> table;

spill out more details and I'll try to debug it.

[z05DSL3A]

dAND3h,

As userulluipeste said, there is not enough info to determine what is going on. Sometimes it is worth creating a small full program to demonstrate the issue you are having, in doing so you may solve your own problem.
eg:

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    char name_str [80];
    char password_str [80];
    
    FILE * pFile;

    // creat a test file
    pFile = fopen ("myfile.txt","w+");
    fprintf (pFile, "%s;%s", "Andy", "Test");
    rewind (pFile);

    // try reading it...
    while(true)
    {
        int vals_read = fscanf (pFile, "%[^;]%s", name_str, password_str);
        if( vals_read == 2 ) 
        {
            printf ("I have read: %s and %s \n",name_str, password_str);
        }
        else if( feof( pFile ) )
			break;
    }

    fclose (pFile);

    return 0;
}

I have read: Andy and ;Test

[dAND3h]

Hey, thanks for the replies, it turns out I was trying to pass a std::string instead of a c-style string, so it was messing up.

But, I now Have a new problem, This is how my code now looks:

std::string tmpname = "";
	std::string tmppass = "";
	const char* name = tmpname.c_str();
	const char* pass = tmppass.c_str();
	int health = -1;
	int armour = -1;
	int lives = -1;

	while( true ) {
		Player user;
		int vals_read = fscanf(fileHandle,"%s %s %d %d %d",name,pass,health,armour,lives);
		if( vals_read == 5 ) {
			// process the line
			user.setName(name);
			user.setPass(pass);
			user.setHealth(health);
			user.setArmour(armour);
			user.setLives(lives);

			table.Insert(user.getName(),user);
		} else if( feof( fileHandle ) )
			break;
	}
	fclose(fileHandle);

As you can see, I read in 2 sets of cstrings and then 3 numbers,all separated by a space. Now, because %s reads until a newline/space (according to what I read on one of the tutorials here), I thought this code should work. But, it doesn't.

My text file now looks like this:
Jack testpass 100 50 4

only 1 line. I found it actually loops twice, the first time it loops, name and pass are correct, but health,armour and lives are still all default -1. The second time it loops, name and pass are equal to 100 and 50 respectively. Thanks for your help :P

[dAND3h]

Lol nevermind, I wasn't using a reference to the numbers..........If anyone runs into this problem. Don't forget to either use a pointer or a reference do store the values in.

e.g.
fscanf(fileHandle,"%s %s %d:%d:%d",name,pass,&health,&armour,&lives);

name and pass are already char*. :D