I was wondering if anyone could lend me a hand? I''m having trouble getting a text file to load into my program. I commented out the strings (that''s another problem I need to contend with in the future). #include "Globals.h" #include "Player.h" //-------------------------------------------------------------- // int LoadPlayer(Player players[]) //-------------------------------------------------------------- int LoadPlayer(Player players[]) { Player p; int i; FILE* f = fopen("playerdata.txt", "r"); if (f ==NULL) { fprintf(stderr, "Could not open playerdat.txt\n"); return 0; } for (i = 0; i < NUM_TOTAL_PLAYERS && fread &p, sizeof(p), 1, f) == 1; ++1) { players.ID = p.ID; // strcpy(players.LastName, p.LastName); // strcpy(players.FirstName, p.FirstName); // strcpy(players.MiddleInitial, p.MiddleInitial); // strcpy(players.CurrentTeam, p.CurrentTeam); players.BWalks = p.BWalks; players.BIntWalks = p.BIntWalks; players.BAtBats = p.BAtBats; players.BHitByPitch = p.BHitByPitch; players.BBattingAvg = p.BBattingAvg; players.BStrikeOuts = p.BStrikeOuts; players.BStolenBases = p.BStolenBases; players.BCaughtStealing = p.BCaughtStealing; players.BDoubles = p.BDoubles; players.BTriples = p.BTriples; players.BHomeRuns = p.BHomeRuns; players.BHits = p.BHits; players.BGroundFlyRatio = p.BGroundFlyRatio; players.BDoublePlays = p.BDoublePlays; players.FCERA = p.FCERA; ETC…… } fclose(f); return i; } //————————————————————— // void SavePlayer(Player players[], int nplayers) //————————————————————— void SavePlayer(Player players[], int nplayers) { int i; FILE* f = fopen("outfile.txt", "w"); if (f == NULL || fwrite(players, sizeof(Player), nplayers, f) != nplayers) { fprintf(stderr, "Could not save outfile.txt\n"); return; } fclose(f); } —————————— The part where i''m calling them is this… Player players[NUM_TOTAL_PLAYERS]; int nplayers = LoadPlayer(players); // GameState initialization if (G1.PrevGameState != GS_VERSUS) { G1.PrevGameState = GS_VERSUS; } // Display what the pitcher / batter matchup is hdc = GetDC(G1.hWnd); SetBkColor(hdc, RGB(0, 0, 0)); SetTextColor(hdc, RGB(255, 255, 255)); sprintf(buffer,"This is a test %d %d.", players[1].ID, players[2].BWalks); TextOut(hdc, 5, 5, buffer, strlen(buffer)); ReleaseDC(G1.hWnd,hdc); I''m getting jibberish in the place of what the actual numbers should be. The txt file data is listed like this… 1 61 20 529 2 0 50 5 2 51 3 21 197 0 8 0 0 0 ETC… Any help would be most appreciated. </i>

i know whats wrong .. u are reading the entire player struct from a text file .. with text.. sorry , fread dont work like that....

try this ..

// save this first

Player player;
player.name = "myname";

fwrite(&player,sizeof(Player),1,file);

// then only u can read with fread

Player player
fread(&player.sizoef(Player),1,file);

unless you use fscanf, u cant convert strings in the file into integer values..

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tip ..

read the entire array at once ..

fread(players,sizeof(Player),NUM_TOTAL_PLAYERS,file);


remember to open with fopen("filename","rb");



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Thanks jwalker, I''ll try that out!!