finding occurances in a file

I've tried several different methods to this project, using stdio.h and fstream.h
All I want to do is read in a file line by line, search for an occurance of a few characters, then copy the text up to the occurance into a new buffer.

I'm on a school computer and don't have access to the one right now with my code on it, but as soon as I can, I will post what I have. I was using strstr() to find the occurances of a few characters, but it returns a pointer to location of the characters. when trying to replace it with strncpy, I need the number of characters to copy before the occurance. Is there an opposite working function to strspn()? One where it returns the length of string1 until it finds the characters of string2?

>>Is there an opposite working function to strspn()?
Yep, strcspn() :-)

maybe...

Not sure about this but...`

Code:

#include <iostream> #include <fstream> using namespace std; int main() { char ch; cout<<"What character do you want to find?"; cin.get(ch); //get the char we want to find ifstream file("file.txt", ios::in); //open the file if(file.is_open()) { while(!file.eof()) { int counter=0; char temp; //temporal char cin.get(temp); if(temp == ch) //if the char matches the one we want counter++; //increase the counter by one } } else cout<<"Sorry, can't open file :("; cout<<'\n'<<ch<<" was repeated "<<counter<<" times." return 0; }

sample app for the counting of occurances of a char in a file.

Here's the code I have just tried using Salem's idea and we still get no output. Any ideas?

Code:

#include <string.h> #include <stdio.h> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { FILE *fp; FILE *tmpfp; char buffer[255]=""; char newbuff[255]=""; fp = fopen(argv[1],"r"); tmpfp = fopen("output.txt","w"); fgets(buffer,255,fp); while (!feof(fp)) { char *p = strstr(buffer, "ok"); int len = p - buffer; strncpy(buffer,newbuff,len); fputs(newbuff,tmpfp); fgets(buffer,255,fp); } fclose(fp); fclose(tmpfp); return 0; }

i got a program (with the help of some people especially Ronin) that finds the occurrances of each letter in the alphabet. Would you like me to post it?

scottmanc, sure post it please

Here is some code that i wrote last year. Not sure if it helps any. It reads from an outside source and counts all the number of times that a letter appears.

Code:

#include <iostream.h> #include <iomanip.h> #include "apvector.h" #include <ctype.h> #include "apstring.h" #include <winsioux.h> #include <fstream.h> int main() { char ch; int x=0, num=0; apvector<int>count(26,0); apvector<int>out(26,0); ifstream doc1; cout<<"1 or 2: "; cin>>num; if(num==1) doc1.open("Nelson.txt"); if(num==2) doc1.open("Aung.txt"); while(doc1) { doc1.get(ch); ch=tolower(ch); switch(ch) { case 'a': count[0]+=1; break; case 'b': count[1]+=1; break; case 'c': count[2]+=1; break; case 'd': count[3]+=1; break; case 'e': count[4]+=1; break; case 'f': count[5]+=1; break; case 'g': count[6]+=1; break; case 'h': count[7]+=1; break; case 'i': count[8]+=1; break; case 'j': count[9]+=1; break; case 'k': count[10]+=1; break; case 'l': count[11]+=1; break; case 'm': count[12]+=1; break; case 'n': count[13]+=1; break; case 'o': count[14]+=1; break; case 'p': count[15]+=1; break; case 'q': count[16]+=1; break; case 'r': count[17]+=1; break; case 's': count[18]+=1; break; case 't': count[19]+=1; break; case 'u': count[20]+=1; break; case 'v': count[21]+=1; break; case 'w': count[22]+=1; break; case 'x': count[23]+=1; break; case 'y': count[24]+=1; break; case 'z': count[25]+=1; break; default: break; } } doc1.close(); for(char letter='A'; letter<='Z' ;letter++) { cout<<letter<<": "; cout<<" "<<count[x]<<endl; x++; } return 0; }

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here is the code that ronin suggested to me so you should thank him.