have a file that we are supposed to use as input. It looks like this: Code: name:curriculum:gradyear:ssn:dob I'm going to read it in a buffer, but trying to find the logic to seperate the fields and then place in a variable. I was thinking something like: Code: if(ispunct(buf[x]) != ':') strcpy(s->name, buf); Any suggestions is greatly appreciated!

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You can use the strtok() function.
As a pseudocode example:
char *aux;
/* Buffer contains name:curriculum:gradyear:ssn:dob*/
aux = buf;
/* i suppose s is a structure with the fields name, curriculum ..... and the memory for this fields has been already alloced, if not use strdup instead of strcpy */
strcpy (s->name,strtok(aux,':'));
strcpy (s->curriculum,strtok(NULL,':'));
strcpy (s->gradyear,strtok(NULL,':'));
strcpy (s->ssn,strtok(NULL,':'));
strcpy (s->dob,strtok(NULL,':'));

 

 

 

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