Subj : Re: directly inputting numbers To : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp From : "Dwayne" Date : Mon Jul 28 2003 02:08 pm Hello Michael Michael>>How will the program know where the number ends? I'm dealing with a text that has many numbers that are not delimited (e.g. by spaces) but are of fixed width. I was hoping that it's possible to specify the amount of characters that you want to read into your integer (analogous to fgets with strings). << Can you give us a sample of your Data? And From this sample of data, can you tell us which numbers are supposed to be extracted from this data? This way, we can have a birds eye view of exactly what you want. Dwayne .