Also, can the text be read in a character at a time, or does it have to be read
in as a string?

Any help would greatly be appreciated.
Please e-mail me.
Thank you!

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Assume that the data items in the file are ints separated by a comma and
that all arrays etc. have been declared then:

1. open the file (check for a valid file pointer)
2. While you are not at the end of the file.
2.1.    Read in a line from the file. (fgets)
2.2     Use sscanf on the line just read in to assign the data to
        individual elements in the array at the current row.
2.3     Increment the index for the row.
3. Close the file.

Making the array global is not necessary for this problem.

Steps 1 & 3 are normal file operations. Step two may be coded within a
function along the lines of:

long getFileData(FILE *stream, int **array, int numCols, int numRows);

The internals are not complicated in themselves but error checking will
increase the size of the function.

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Bob Wightman
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