Best method for counting tokens

I'm writing a program that counts all of the tokens in a given file ("search"). I can count the number of "#" signs in the file, but I need to name a number of other tokens... {}()/... and output how many where found in the file.

Can anyone offer suggestions as to the best method to accomplish this? Right now I am thinking of having each value set up as it's own variable - such as delim1 = #, delim2 = {, and then creating a function from my current code to call each time. Is there a more efficent/faster method? Here is my current code:

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#define MAX_LINE 80

int main()
{
	char line[MAX_LINE];   /*  Max length of line is 80 */
	char delim[] = "#";       /* Testing just # delim */
    
	char *words, 
                *ptr;
	FILE *fptr;
	int count = 0;
	int ch;
	int linect;

	fptr = fopen ("search", "r");    /* Test file "search" */
	
	/* File does not exist or there are not proper permissions set */
	if (fptr==NULL)
		printf ("\nCannot open the file\n\n");
	else	
	{
	/* While the file is not at EOF, End of File, loop */
	while ((ch=fgetc(fptr)) !=EOF)
	{	
		/* Reads a line from the file and sets the ptr variable to the line */
		fgets(line,MAX_LINE,fptr);
		ptr=line;
		linect = linect++;
		 printf("Line reads: %s\n", ptr);
		/* Loop while looking for delims, when no delims are found it is NULL */
		while ((words = strtok(ptr, delim)) != NULL)   
	      {
			printf("Strtok result: %s\n", words);
			count++;
			ptr = NULL;  
	      }
	 }
	printf("\nNumber of delims in the file: %d \n\n",(count-linect)); 
	fclose(fptr);
	}   
	return 0;
}

This is working with just one delim on the two lines included in the "search" file below:

This # is a # test # file.
End#

Well I don't know if this is faster but from the shorter-code-is-simpler dept. something that pulls a character at a time from the file and then hits a switch statement like:

Code:

switch(charFromFile)
{
    case '#':
    {
         hashCounter++;
         break;
    }
    case '{':
    {
         openBraceCounter++;
         break;
    }
// etc
}

// then read next character..

Should be pretty simple and brain-dead to code up...

Thanks - that makes more sense that what I was thinking... where I'd start with an array filled with different delims and run through counting code EACH time.

Originally Posted by Sn0wcra5h

Thanks - that makes more sense that what I was thinking... where I'd start with an array filled with different delims and run through counting code EACH time.

Well simple and brain-dead are my forte these days