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From: jayward@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Jay Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Help for a budding C programmer?
Message-ID: <1980@pdxgate.UUCP>
Date: 16 Mar 91 06:16:21 GMT
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Reply-To: jayward@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Jay Ward)
Organization: Portland State University, Portland, OR
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Hello!  I am trying to convert from programming in Pascal to C
and having a rather CHALLENGING time!  If anyone can help, I would
really appreciate it.  I wrote the following program to split one file
that contains a bunch of shar files (pulled from comp.binaries.amiga)
into separate files (one per shar file).  The program isn't even
creating the proper filenames.  NOTE: I tested the function OUTVERS
separately and it seemed to work fine.
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#include <stdio.h>
 
char * outvers(char *, int);
 
main(argc, argv)
int	argc;
char	*argv[];
 
{
	FILE	*infile, *outfile;
	int	filecount;
	char	b[80], *filename;
 
	infile = fopen(argv[1], "rb");
	filecount = 1;
 
	while(fgets(b,80,infile) !=NULL)
	{
		filename = outvers(argv[2], filecount);
 
		outfile = fopen(filename, "wb");
		while((b[0] != '#') && (b[1] != '-'))
		{
			fgets(b,80,infile);/* discard unneeded lines */
		}
		while((b[0] != '-') && (b[1] != '-'))
		{
			printf("Outfile ==> %s\n", filename);
			printf("%s", b);	
			fputs(b, outfile);	/* save the good ones */
			fgets(b,80,infile);	
		}
		fclose(outfile);
		filecount++;
	}
	fclose(infile);
}
 
/* outvers will return a filename with the passed name followed by a single
character extender letter that corresponds with the integer passed */
 
char * outvers(file, version)
char	*file;			/* Needs a pointer to a string */
int	version;		/* and an integer */
 
{
	int	i = 0;
	char	filename[30];
 
 
	/* go to end of string */
	while(file[i] != '\0') filename[i] = file[i++];
 
	filename[i++] = '.';		/* add a version extender */
	filename[i++] = 64+version;
	filename[i++] = '\0';
 
 
	return (char *) &filename;
}
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Thanks in advance!

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