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struct CUSTOMER<br />
{<br />
DWORD QuoteNumber;<br />
CHAR  Surname[56];<br />
CHAR  Initials[2];<br />
DWORD CarpetCost; // in Pence/Cents<br />
DWORD DeliveryCost;<br />
SHORT Guarantee; // mind the pun<br />
}

WalderMort wrote:

Now since the file is layed out with 5 lines per customer, I would create a function to read a single customer then call this in a loop until there are non remaining.

bool ReadCustomerDetails( FILE* hFile, CUSTOMER* pCustomer )

Open the file with fopen(), read each line with gets() then depending on the which line you read convert it to the datatype in the struct.