Thread: open file, search of word, replace word with another

so its seems basic right? welll its been driving me mad for the last week this is the 7th time i have started back from scratch and each time i just cant get it to wrok right

and when i get to the part where i rewrite the word back into the file how should i do it? im trying the getline method and im not sure how to delete only one line

welll here is what i have to date :P anyone have an example of this that actually works?

Code:

#include <iostream.h>
#include <fstream.h>
#include <string.h>

int main()
{
	char FileContents[500]="three blind mice three blind mice", WordToDelete[10]="three", WordToInsert[10]="real";
	char StoreFileContents[500]="three blind mice three blind mice";
	int length1=strlen(FileContents);
	int length2=strlen(WordToDelete);
	int length3=strlen(WordToInsert);
	int count,count2,count3, tempcount, newfilelength=length1;
	cout<<FileContents<<endl;
	for(count=0;count<=length1;count++)
	{		
		if(FileContents[count]==WordToDelete[0])
		{
			for(count2=count;count2<=(count+length2);count2++)
			{
				if(count2==(count+length2)){
					if(length2==length3)
					{
						for(count3=count;count3<(count+length2);count3++)
						{
							FileContents[count3]=WordToInsert[count3-count];
						}
					}
					else if(length2<length3)
					{						
						for(count3=count;count3<(count+length3);count3++)
							FileContents[count3]=WordToInsert[count3-count];
						FileContents[count3++]=' ';//ok
						//problems begin:(
						tempcount=count3++;//ok
						newfilelength=newfilelength+((length3-length2)+1);//ok
						for(count3=tempcount;count3<newfilelength;count3++)
							FileContents[count3]=StoreFileContents[count3-(length3-length2)];
					}
					else if(length2>length3)
					{						
						for(count3=count;count3<(count+length3);count3++)
							FileContents[count3]=WordToInsert[count3-count];
						tempcount=count3;
						newfilelength=newfilelength+((length3-length2)+1);
						for(count3=count;count3<newfilelength;count3++)
							FileContents[count3]=StoreFileContents[count3-(length3-length2)];
					}
			
				}
			}
		}
	}
	cout<<endl;
	cout<<newfilelength<<" "<<length1<<" "<<count3<<endl;
	for(count=0;count<=newfilelength;count++)
		cout<<FileContents[count];
	cout<<endl;
	return (0);
}