Buffered reading from stdin using fread in C

Question

I am trying to efficiently read from the stdin by using setvbuf in `_IOFBF~ mode. I am new to buffering. I am looking for working examples.

The input begins with two integers (n,k). The next n lines of input contain 1 integer. The aim is to print how many integers are divisible by k.

#define BUFSIZE 32
int main(){
  int n, k, tmp, ans=0, i, j;
  char buf[BUFSIZE+1] = {'0'};
  setvbuf(stdin, (char*)NULL, _IONBF, 0);
  scanf("%d%d\n", &n, &k);
  while(n>0 && fread(buf, (size_t)1, (size_t)BUFSIZE, stdin)){
    i=0; j=0;
    while(n>0 && sscanf(buf+j, "%d%n", &tmp, &i)){
    //printf("tmp %d - scan %d\n",tmp,i); //for debugging
      if(tmp%k==0)  ++ans;
      j += i; //increment the position where sscanf should read from
      --n;
    }
  }
  printf("%d", ans);
  return 0;
}

The problem is if number is at the boundary, the buffer buf will read 23 from 2354\n, when it should have either read 2354 (which it cannot) or nothing at all.

How can I solve this issue?

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Edit
Resolved now (with analysis).

Edit
Complete Problem Specification

Answer 1

I am going to recommend trying full buffering with setvbuf and ditching fread. If the specification is that there is one number per line, I will take that for granted, use fgets to read in a full line and pass it to strtoul parse the number that is supposed to be on that line.

#include <errno.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

#define INITIAL_BUFFER_SIZE 2 /* for testing */

int main(void) {
    int n;
    int divisor;
    int answer = 0;
    int current_buffer_size = INITIAL_BUFFER_SIZE;
    char *line = malloc(current_buffer_size);

    if ( line == NULL ) {
        return EXIT_FAILURE;
    }

    setvbuf(stdin, (char*)NULL, _IOFBF, 0);

    scanf("%d%d\n", &n, &divisor);

    while ( n > 0 ) {
        unsigned long dividend;
        char *endp;
        int offset = 0;
        while ( fgets(line + offset, current_buffer_size, stdin) ) {
            if ( line[strlen(line) - 1] == '\n' ) {
                break;
            }
            else {
                int new_buffer_size = 2 * current_buffer_size;
                char *tmp = realloc(line, new_buffer_size);
                if ( tmp ) {
                    line = tmp;
                    offset = current_buffer_size - 1;
                    current_buffer_size = new_buffer_size;
                }
                else {
                    break;
                }
            }
        }
        errno = 0;
        dividend = strtoul(line, &endp, 10);
        if ( !( (endp == line) || errno ) ) {
            if ( dividend % divisor == 0 ) {
                answer += 1;
            }
        }
        n -= 1;
    }

    printf("%d\n", answer);
    return 0;
}

I used a Perl script to generate 1,000,000 random integers between 0 and 1,000,000 and checked if they were divisible by 5 after compiling this program with gcc version 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3) on my Windows XP laptop. The whole thing took less than 0.8 seconds.

When I turned buffering off using setvbuf(stdin, (char*)NULL, _IONBF, 0);, the time went up to about 15 seconds.