search algoritam

[Unregistered]

Hi!

I have to write a program for searching addressbook. Structure looks like tihs:

struct addressbook {
char name[20];
char surname[20];
int telnumber;
} m;

When I enter *en* (or en*) search algoritam needs to search a file with data from structure. I have to enter *. Program needs to list results in another file, output.txt.

Does anyone knows how to this?

Thanks,

sed

[Shadow]

> Does anyone knows how to this?
Google does.

[MethodMan]

I have seen many people respond to questions, with links to google. I just have to say that google is one of the best tools when you are stuck. It has everything!

[Shiro]

You can read in the file in an array of structures. And then perform a search on the data on the pattern you want to find.

[Unregistered]

Then we do not need this site! We have google for everything.
Please don't send me link to google, I've already been there. I just need an idea how to solve this.

sed

[Hammer]

>I just need an idea how to solve this
which bit of the puzzle do you want help with?

You can't ask for everything to be done for you, just say which bit in particular you are having trouble understanding, and hopefully someone will give you some pseudo code or clues on how to do it.

[Unregistered]

Well, I want to find, for example, word "Deana" in file book.txt. When I enter *ena* program needs to search file book.txt for name that has ena -> Deana, Beana, etc. How to write search algoritam for this?

[Hammer]

strstr() will do for that (minus the asterisks). Look that one up, and see if you think so.

(I presume you are not wanting help to read the data, only search it?).

[Unregistered]

> (I presume you are not wanting help to read the data, only search it?).

Thank you!

sed