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    <p>I have a file that I'm trying to read and fill variables with. The file consists of this: </p> <pre><code>0\ttake a nap\n 1\tstudy heap-based priority queue\n 101\treview trees for Midterm 2\n 3\tdo assignment 7\n </code></pre> <p>This may be hard to read, but you can see that there is an integer to begin with, followed by a tab, a string after that, followed by a newline. I need to take the integer and put that into a variable, detect the tab, and put the string following the tab into a variable, detect the newline, take the two variables and create a node with the information, and then start over again on the next line. After hours of scouring the internet, this is what I've come up with:</p> <pre><code>char activity[SIZE]; char position[SIZE]; char line[100]; FILE *infile; char *inname = "todo.txt"; int i = 0; infile = fopen(inname, "r"); if (!infile) { printf("Couldn't open %s for reading\n"); return 0; } while(i &lt; 100 &amp;&amp; fgets(line, sizeof(line), infile) != NULL){ sscanf(line, "%s\t%s", position, activity); printf("%s\n", position); printf("%s\n", activity); i++; } </code></pre> <p>When running this test code on the txt file above, I get this as a result:</p> <pre><code>0 take 1 study 101 review 3 do </code></pre> <p>So, it looks to me like it's getting the first number alright (as a string) and putting it into the variable, seeing the tab, and grabbing the first sequence after the tab and stopping there after putting it into the other variable. How do I rectify this situation?</p>
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