Question

I have a file that looks like this

name1 year1 director1
name1 year1 director1
...

I'd like to read it in, and store each to a member of a linked list. I've already opened the file

what should I use? fscanf, fgets? I've tried fscanf, but when I asked to print out the member, I just get (null)

here is my code

tail=(movie *)malloc(sizeof(movie));

fscanf(fptr, "%s", tail->title);
printf("%s", tail->title);

Am I doing something wrong, or is this an error of fscanf?

Answer 1

Edit, that second line should be name2 year2 director2, and so on and so forth...

Answer 2

Your scanf will return a single string into the title field of the ( I assume ) movie struct that you ( hopefully ) allocated with your malloc ( you didn't check whether malloc succeeded ).

I think you want:

fscanf( fptr, "%s %s %s", tail->title, tail->year, tail->director );

Answer 3

Yep. that seemed to work. I think it had to do with the way I declared my strings. I had it as char * title, but when it changed it to char[50] title, it worked fine,