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Top Forums Programming Format specifier for sscanf() in C Post 303040775 by yifangt on Wednesday 6th of November 2019 01:45:08 PM
Old 11-06-2019
last variable gets printed twice

Thanks!
Change the char array size ID[12], str1[12] resolved the ID bug!

Last bug(hopefully!): the last variable is printed twice, that I really could not understand.
Code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

// pratice with fgets() + sscanf() to read in multiple lines into struct
typedef struct {
    char ID[12];
   /*omit other members for this post */
    char Indel_SNPMNPRatio[8];
} RECORD;

int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
    char line[512];      //for row read from file
    char name[32];      //1st part (key part) parsed from each line[]
    char str1[12];       //2nd part (value part) parsed from each line[]

    FILE* fPtr = fopen(argv[1], "r");
    RECORD record[16];            //test file may have 288 ~ 306 rows including blank lines
    static int i = -1;               //initialize counter

    while (fgets(line, sizeof(line), fPtr) != NULL) {
        str1[0]='0';
        if ( line[0] == '\n' ) continue;        //skip "blank" lines with e.g. empty or invisible spaces(to be improved!).

        sscanf(line, "%[^:] : %s", name, str1);   
        if (strstr(name, "Sample Name") != NULL) {
            i++;
            strcpy(record[i].ID, str1);
            printf("\n");
        }
        printf("%s ", str1);
    }

    puts("\nEND");      //For debug.
    fclose(fPtr);
    return 0;
}

./prog vcfstats.txt
Code:
sample1 91 1 5 2 0 1 44 1.74 2.96 2.79 - 4.00 - - 2.50 0.08 0.08 
sample2 73 2 2 3 0 1 63 1.87 2.59 2.50 1.00 - - - 0.67 0.07 0.07 
...... 
sample15 87 1 4 2 0 1 42 1.74 2.96 2.79 - 2.00 - - 1.25 0.08 0.08 
sample16 83 1 2 3 0 4 65 1.87 2.59 2.50 1.00 - - - 0.67 0.07 0.07 
END

I want to ensure all the details of the bugs.
How come the last variable gets printed twice?
Thanks again.

Last edited by yifangt; 11-06-2019 at 04:30 PM..
 

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