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Greenfish
Greenfish

Reputation: 378

Why is the output order changing when I print using printf?

I want to generate an output like this "firstname surname: day.month.year " but what i get is some mixed up order. I am new to C and I don't know what's going on here.

So this is what i get

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This is my code

char string[imax];
fgets (string, imax, team1); //wo, max count, aus welchem file
int i=1, k=0;
char delimiter[] = " ";
char *day, *month, *year, *firstname, *surname;
char *stats[5];

while(fgets(string,imax,team1) != 0)
{
    /*stats[0] = strtok(string,delimiter);
    while(i <=4)
    {
        stats[i] = strtok(NULL,delimiter);
        i++;
    }*/

    day = strtok(string,delimiter);
    month = strtok(NULL,delimiter);
    year = strtok(NULL,delimiter);
    firstname = strtok(NULL,delimiter);
    surname = strtok(NULL,delimiter);

    printf("%s ", firstname);
    printf("%s:", surname);
    printf("%s.", day);
    printf("%s.", month);
    printf("%s. ", year);

}

EDIT: I get the same order as the order in the file i am reading from

Upvotes: 1

Views: 295

Answers (1)

Ingo Leonhardt
Ingo Leonhardt

Reputation: 9894

First, you need to add a newline after printing the year. Either change

printf("%s. ", year);

to

printf("%s.\n ", year);

or add

fputc( '\n', stdout );

The second thing is, that after fgets() the newline of the source text file is part of string and therefore part of surname. You can handle this by adding '\n' to delimiter (and if it's a Windows text file opened on another system (e.g. UNIX), '\r' too)

Upvotes: 3

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