Adding to a big char* for search engine

Hey everyone,

I've got a situation, I am building a search engine and i am trying to produce one big char pointer that points to all text that is not a tag in an html file.

I do this by reading the html file, line by line, removing tags from each line(by calling removeTag), then adding the line w/o tags to the end of my big char pointer. But alas, it is not working.

You can assume that all my functions that i call are working normally, since i've already debuged them. the error has to be where i add duplicate to the bigPtr. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks everyone.

The Landroid

Oh yeah, ignore my print statements, they are just for debuging and seeing what is going where.

Code:

char* getNoTags(char* url)
{
//printf("IN GET NO TAGS");
  char contentType[ MaxLineLength ];
  char* duplicate;
  int counter;
  char* bigPtr;
  int x = 0;
  int y = 0;
  char line[MaxLineLength];
  bigPtr = new char[10000];
  FILE * f = openhttp( url, contentType );
  if ( f == NULL ) {
    exit(1);
  }

  // Print the content type
  //printf( "Content Type: \"%s\"\n", contentType );


  while ( fgets( line, MaxLineLength, f ) ) {
	
    duplicate = removeTag(line,MaxLineLength);
	//printf("%s",duplicate);
	y = 0;
    do{
      bigPtr[x] = duplicate[y];                                
	  
      x++;
      y++;
	printf("%c",bigPtr[x]);
    }while(duplicate[y] != '\0');
     
	//printf("i've made it out\n");
  }

	printf("\ni'm outside everything\n");

  fclose(f);

  //bigPtr[x] = '\0';
  //printf("bigPTR: %s\n",bigPtr);
  printf("returning\n");
  return bigPtr;

}

and BTW, this is a school project, not for production.

Code:

bigPtr = new char[10000];

That's C++, not C.

> duplicate = removeTag(line,MaxLineLength);
Your problem is probably here. Plus if you're allocating space for duplicate in removeTag(), you're leaking memory, since you didn't free it.

Also, this is C++ code.

the unix server i compile on compiles it in C++, so i can use C++ and C for my code. I write most of my code in C, but i do use an occasional C++ command if it seems easier.

RemoveTags runs fine, i use it on other functions that work and it does exactly what it is supposed to.

And yes i know this is a memory leak, i am just trying to get this bad boy runnin so i can test my binary trees and such. I can fix that later once its runnin.

I will try and recode it w/ realloc() and see how that works out.

Any other suggestions would be awesome.

Thanks for the replies too

The Landroid

Well your "occasional use of C++ commands" makes it no longer a C issue. If any of it is C++, it all is. As such, you're in the wrong place if you choose to do it that way.

Quzah.