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From: fhg@mace.cc.purdue.edu (J. F. Blake)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Reading data
Message-ID: <5273@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 6 Aug 90 20:11:52 GMT
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     <<Warning, novice question follows.>>

What would be the "best" way to read the following data?  The code I have
works fine, but I am interested accepted style.

  C    0.000000  0    0.000000  0    0.000000  0    0    0    0
  H    1.100954  1    0.000000  0    0.000000  0    1    0    0
  C    1.399112  1  119.509166  1    0.000000  0    1    2    0
  C    1.399112  1  119.509166  1  180.000000  0    1    2    3

Currently I do the following:

    FILE   *fpin, *fpout, *fopen();
    char    line[80], atomic_symbol[3];
    int     i, j, k;
    double  x, y, z;

    while (fgets(line, 80, fpin) != NULL) {
        sscanf(line, "%s %lf %*d %lf %*d %lf %*d %d %d %d",
               atomic_symbol, &x, &y, &z, &i, &j, &k);
    }

  Thanks.  

  Jim