title: How do you read tab delimited strings from a txt file and put them into variables?
body: <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>