Thread: counting a specific char

does anyone have an idea how can i do that?
mainly, i think i can do it with a for loop, that will go over a buffer that will contain a line from the text file (*.txt) and each time will incrase the counting value by one.
but how do i create a buffer and such a loop?

thanks...

well, listen:
i need to program a prog that its input will be a text file path, and its output will be the number that a specific char is there.
for example:

123.txt:
------------
abc
abc
abc

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and asumming that i'm looking for the char "a", the output would be: 3.

can i do that?
in the last post i wrote the outline of my idea to that...
can you help me with that?

pretty easy, read the file one character a time, using fgetc(), and check each character, if it's 'a' (or any other character you choose), increment a counter, something like this:

Code:

FILE* fp = fopen("file.txt", "r");
int counter = 0;
char c;
while ((c = fgetc(fp)) != EOF) {
    if (c == 'a') {
        counter++;
    }
}
fclose(fp);

thanks guys, you really hekped me alot!

Hope you get a good mark in that class!

~arker