file manipulation (txt)(C)

[Podouskislender]

Hello guys, I need to make a C program that reads a text file for example the following sentence: 5 + 7, 10-15 ... (etc.), and show the result.
I managed to make it solve part of the problem. The program is making the sum of the first line. But just to rely on a digit (3 + 5).
And the program only reads up to the first line. Can anyone help me?

[deceptikon]

How general is this intended to be? Because you're looking at essentially a mini-compiler that parses and evaluates mathematical expressions. In other words, it's not exactly a trivial project.

[Podouskislender]

is for a college job.

[deceptikon]

That tells me exactly nothing. :P

[David W]

if each line in the file is exactly

numberA someBinaryOp number B

then the problem is a breeze

//example file:

23.2 + -11.7
-11 * -77.9
128.99 / -11
23.91 - 123.99

[David W]

// an example of processing the above example data ...

/* binaryOpsFromFile.c */  /* 2013-08-19 */


#include <stdio.h>

/* example file */

#define FNAME "numDat.txt"
/*
23.2 + -11.7
-11 * -77.9
128.99 / -11
23.91 - 123.99
55.5 / 0
.33 / 100
*/

void showAopB( double a, char op, double b )
{
    double result = 0.0;
    switch( op )
    {
        case '+' : result = a + b; break;
        case '-' : result = a - b; break;
        case '*' : result = a * b; break;
        case '/' : if( b == 0.0 )
                        printf( "Invalid ==> " );
                   result = ( b == 0 ? 0 : a/b );
                   break;
        default : printf( "%f %c %f NOT defined ... \n", a, op, b );
    }
    printf( "%fa %c %f = %f\n", a, op, b, result );
}

int main()
{
    FILE* fin = fopen( FNAME, "r" );

    if( fin )
    {
        double a, b;
        char op;
        while
        (
            fscanf( fin, "%lf", &a ) == 1 &&
            fscanf( fin, " %c", &op ) == 1 && /* skip any leading ws */
            fscanf( fin, "%lf", &b ) == 1

        )
        showAopB( a, op, b );

        fclose( fin );
    }
    else printf( "\nThere was a problem opening file %s", FNAME );

    printf( "\nPress 'Enter' to continue/exit ... " );
    fflush( stdout ) ;
    getchar();

    return 0;
}

[Podouskislender]

thanks for the reply gave me new ideas, last question, if I want to store the answers in another txt file how can I do?