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From: marty@cernvax.cern.ch (hugues marty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Numbers from TEXT files under Think C ?
Message-ID: <4978@cernvax.cern.ch>
Date: 22 Apr 91 08:33:47 GMT
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In article <17150002@hpihoah.cup.hp.com> cring@hpihoah.cup.hp.com (Craig Ring) writes:
>I am writing a program in Think C 4.0 that needs to read numeric input from
>an ASCII text file.  Under UNIX this is very easy to do with fscanf() and so
>on.  Is there a simple way to do this with a Macintosh?  
>
>I would like to be able to use SFGetFile() to allow the user to pick the
>file they would like to open, but the SFReply doesn't seem to be very useful
>to the ANSI C libraries for Think C.  The Think C documentation says that
>scanf() requires a pointer to type FILE, which I am not sure how to get.

One way is to call SFGetFile(), then geting the whole path name
for the selected file (for example "HD:folder 1:document") and passing
this string to the fopen() function which will return a FILE *.
The problem is how to get the file path... and I don't have
a sample code off-hand. If you have access to technical notes,
this is documented in TN 238 (Getting a full pathname).

Good luck, Hugues.
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