Thread: Hi Help with reading a file and string modification

Hi All,

I have a particular problem on hand and was thinking what would be a good way to solve the same.

I have a text file with a lot of lines,say

s=abcddddddeeeffffff
t=ddddrrrffffabcgggggshhhhh
w=gggdjjuuuuabciugdiasugdaoiugsd

etc

I need to read the file, and get the output such that:

s=zddddddeeeffffff
t=ddddrrrffffzgggggshhhhh
w=gggdjjuuuuziugdiasugdaoiugsd
z=abc

etc, the number of such words that i may need to replace are many.

what would be the best way to solve the problem,

Should I read the file line by line keep on replcing all the occurences of the abc to z and at the end of the file add the formula z=abc????

Is this an assignment?

There's more than one way of doing this. So why not just try the idea you presented and then ask for help when you have trouble?

Is the z=abc formula included in the file as the last line? If so, I'd read the entire file down to that line, save the "from" and "to" values someplace, then rewind the file and process line by line.

so you want to replace "abc" by "z" in each string.
i would build a char* function which returns the end of "abc" in the string (it whould return to str3)

str1=abcddddddeeeffffff
and then i would build a string str2 which has "z"
and the i will do strtoc (str2,str3);

thats when you have a case when abc is in the start
then same principle you can do if it ends by abc.

but when abc in the middle
thats harder you whould need to do 2 strcat's

good luck