Re: another simple C question please...
Re: another simple C question please...
- Subject: Re: another simple C question please...
- From: "John Baker" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:47:50 -0500
ch = peek(theFile)
peek() looks at the next charachter without consuming it.
John Baker
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Thorp" <email@hidden>
To: <email@hidden>
Cc: "Joe Osborn" <email@hidden>
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 9:06 AM
Subject: another simple C question please...
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Greetings...
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I wonder if any of you could help me on this one please. Thanks again
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to everyone for all the help in the past. This one's pretty simple I
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think...
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In short, is there any way, before reading in a character from a file
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(using something like: ch = fgetc (theFile)), to instead find out what
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the next character is, before actually reading it and moving the file
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position indicator along one?
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For a more lengthy explanation of what I'm trying to do:
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I'm using functions like:
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int NextCharsOfFileToInteger (FILE *theFile, char parser)
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{
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int result = 0;
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char ch;
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while ( (ch = fgetc (theFile)) != parser )
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{
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result = (result * 10) + (ch-'0');
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}
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return result;
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}
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and I'll of course pass a file pointer and a character to this function.
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I wouldn't be surprised if there's a better way to do this particular
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function, and if so I'm all ears, but my question above is still
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relevant, because I have a few functions like this reading in
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characters from the file up to a certain character and then doing one
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thing or another with them.
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The question is, I want to be sure before I get into this function that
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the next character is NOT certain things. I don't want the function to
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have to figure it out.
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Can anyone help please?
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Thanks in advance!
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David.
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