strings

Hey guys,

I need to know if someone can give me an example of how to check to see if an email address read from a text file has a "." between something like yahoo and com
ex. yahoo.com compared to yahoocom
and also how to insert one in if it dosent have one.

Thanks,
Bob

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thx for the post, but I already seached all that stuff and was unsucessful in my search Maybe I'm just using the wrong terms or something...

Show us what you've got (or even thought of) so far, and we may be willing to help.

It's 3 files, and fairly big, but if you really want me to post I still can...

Look in to the strstr function, or implement your own function.

I need to know if someone can give me an example of how to check to see if an email address read from a text file has a "." between something like yahoo and com
ex. yahoo.com compared to yahoocom
and also how to insert one in if it dosent have one.

With website names like yahoo.com, partypoker.net, the dot is the fourth character from the end. So, if you read your website name into a string type, you can:

1) Check to see if the 4th character from the end of your string is a '.' using array notation with the string variable

2) if it is, then do nothing

3) otherwise get the substr() up to the dot and put it a second string variable, add a '.' to the second string, and finally add the rest of the first string to the second string using substr( ) again.

However, if there are going to be website extensions like:

.aero, .coop, .info, .museum, .name

then you will probably have to use a for loop to search the string for a '.', and if you don't find one, then check each possible extension against the end of the string.

This is a C++ board, and you mentioned string, so is it safe to assume you are talking about the C++ string class? If so, just use find() (or rfind()) to find the '.' and use substr() to separate the pieces.

i've been messing with it most afternoon, and theoreticly this should work shouldn't it?

Code:

 x = rj.email.length(); 
   y = ri.email.length(); 

   x -= 3; 
   y -= 3;

   if(rj.email.find('.'))
   rj.address.insert(x, ".");

   if(ri.email.find('.'))
   ri.address.insert(y, ".");

it compiles fine, but i get this when i try running it
http://geocities.com/bobvila2003/insert.JPG

I believe you need to test the return value of find() for std::string::npos, instead of just testing for truth. Also, you should check to make sure that length() returns a value of at least 3, otherwise you'll get an array index out of bounds (you could be accessing array elements -3, -2 and -1). Also check just to make sure that length() is returning what you expect

What about ".info" sites? There are now domains that end in more than just three character suffixes.

Quzah.

Originally Posted by quzah

What about ".info" sites? There are now domains that end in more than just three character suffixes.

Quzah.

The issue was already raised:

However, if there are going to be website extensions like:

.aero, .coop, .info, .museum, .name

then you will probably have to use a for loop to search the string for a '.', and if you don't find one, then check each possible extension against the end of the string.

I doubt this can be done at all, practically at least, unless it is a fixed 3 characters. Anyway, there's .nl and .tk etc. too.

I doubt this can be done at all, practically at least,

Sure it can.

surely,one can find the '.' but inserting '.' is not that easy.one should then know all
.com,.tk,.info etc sites .

http://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt

A list of all the avaliable top level domains. You could look for combinations of these in the string, however if they have something like "myinfo.com", you'd end up with "my.info.com".

You could cheat by getting one TLD (ie ".au"), querying the site to see if it returns a match, and if not cycle through again for another extension ".com.au" and query that, rinse and repeat. However, the first match you find may still be incorrect.

The you could go further. Take a string, "mycoukinfocomau", find every possible match in the string, query them all, and if more than one matches ask the user.

Finding the '.' is easy - can be done with one for loop. But finding where one should be is far harder. If you can find a way, let me know.

I haven't written C++ for years, but heres how I'd do it in C#, maybe it would help (untested).

Code:

void main()
{
	// This holds a list of all the possible top level domains (tlds)
	StringCollection tlds = new StringCollection();

	using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader("top-level-domains.txt"))
	{
	 	while ((string s = reader.ReadLine()) != null)
	 	{
	 	 	// Loop through and add each TLD to the top level domains collection
	 	 	tlds.Add(s.Trim().ToLower());
	 	}
	}

	// This collection holds all our inputs
	StringCollection emails = new StringCollection();

	using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader("emailList.txt"))
	{
	 	while ((string s = reader.ReadLine()) != null)
	 	{
	 	 	// Loop through and add each email to the collection
	 	 	emails.Add(s.Trim().ToLower());
	 	}
	}

	foreach (string email in emails)
	{
		foreach (string match in GetMatches(email))
		{
			Console.WriteLine("Match: " + match);
		}
	}
}

StringCollection GetMatches(string email)
{
	StringCollection results = new StringCollection();
	// test for the dot, im sure you can do that
	[..]
	// else test without a dot
	oh i cant be stuffed
}