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Hi all. I'm curious if there's a way to use the find function to find a certain character, then the get function to get that complete string? For example, if I were to find the "@" in a file and then extract the surrounding string with the get command? How do I go about doing something like this? Thanks!
No.
But you can always write some code to do that. You could use getline() to read the whole file into a string variable. Then you could use find() to get the index position of "@". Then you can test the characters before that index value until you find a space and record that index value. Then you can test each character after that index value until you find a space, comma, colon, period, etc. and record that index position. Finally, you can use substr() to get the substring between those two index values.
Ah I see, you mean get the word that contains the @. Yes, that's more complicated. You'd have to do as 7stud mentioned.
OK, so in order for me to get the info I want I would need to:
1) use getline() to put my file into string
2) use find() to get the position of "@"
3) run some kind of test to pick up the characters before and after the @ to store the index points between white characters
4) use substr to store the data between the index values in 3
It's called a while loop. Think: --Quote:
run some kind of test to pick up the characters before and after the @
:)
I would just read the file in one word at a time and if the word read in has the '@', then you're done. You don't need to store the rest of the file if all you want is the word with the '@'. It gets more complicated depending on your definition of word. My simple solution assumes a whitespace delimited word that can be read in with operator>>.