Thread: Issues with searching through a .mal file for specific string.

So I have a file "input.mal" that I am searching through for specific words. The problem is that after using

Code:

while(fgets(line, sizeof line, inp2) != NULL)

line gets some random quotations inbetween words. And this causes issues because I am using strtok to split up the line at commas, spaces, and tabs. So now these symbols appear as part of the word and cause strcmp to say 2 words arent the same.

Say the line in the file is simply
put avg

when it gets read into line, I get some random stuff. Should I maybe be nulling line after every iteration of the loop? Here is a screen shot of what the debugger is showing. You can see that on line[0] and line[8] there is that "

How big is this file?

If it's less than about 20megabytes, I'd consider loading it as one big string (using fread()) then searching it with strstr().

I'm sure that would be a lot faster than mucking about with line by line stuff.

The files are not very big at all. Maybe 500 lines max. I did do this with strstr and everything works fine. I was trying to redo it though because I am concerned that if for some reason there is avg2 on a line and I am searching for avg1, I dont want it to say that it was found when it was really something else.

Thanks, I dont know why visual studio would be set up like that. Doesnt make much sense but at least I should be able to work around that.

Originally Posted by aw1742

The files are not very big at all. Maybe 500 lines max. I did do this with strstr and everything works fine. I was trying to redo it though because I am concerned that if for some reason there is avg2 on a line and I am searching for avg1, I dont want it to say that it was found when it was really something else.

That might happen with avg12 but not avg2 ... One way is to be more specific... " avg1 " let it find the padding too.