I'm back and I 've changed my code around a bit. I almost have it compiling except for one error that says there is a syntax error before inFile my struct that will hold my arrays. It's in the second for loop. I think that I have my struct declared correctly and I think that it will actually hold each line from the text file as an array into my struct. Here's my code
//Struct representing the items in the file
struct inFile
{
char itemNumber[32];
int timeToFinish;
int elapsedMinutes;
};
typedef struct inFile inFile;
int main ()
{
char fileName[100];
int itemAmount = 0;
char itemNumber[10];
int timeToFinish = 0;
int elapsedMinutes = 0;
int i = 0;
int readCounter = 0;
int finishTime[20];//holds the finish items
int counter = 0;
// Prompt the user for a filename.
printf ("Enter a filename to load: ");
scanf ("%s" , &fileName);
FILE *fn;
fn = fopen(fileName, "r");
// Check to make sure that we opened the file successfully.
if (fn != NULL)
{
fscanf (fn, "%d", &itemAmount);//Scan first line into variable
int finishTime[15];
// Initialize it to NULLs
/*
for (i=0; i<15; i++)
{
finishTime[i] = NULL;
}
*/
//Loading each item from the file into our array.
//while (i <= itemAmount)
for (i=0; i<itemAmount; i++)
{
fscanf(fn, "%s, %d, %d,", inFile.itemNumber[i], inFile.timeToFinish[i], inFile.elapsedMinutes[i]); //HERE I HAVE AN ERROR BEFORE INFILE
finishTime[counter] = timeToFinish;
counter++;
}
//Closes the file
printf ("\nFile successfully loaded!\n");
fclose(fn);
// Print out the array contents.
for (readCounter = 0; readCounter < 15; readCounter++)
{
if (finishTime[readCounter] != 0)
{
printf("item%d %d %d\n", readCounter, finishTime[readCounter]);
}
}
}
else
{
printf("Error: The file you specified could not be found!");
}
system ("PAUSE");
return 0;
}
So frustrated because I'm almost there! Just one little error and a couple of my friends couldn't figure it out either.