Determining XY Coordinates

How can i determine the XY coordinates of a character and print the output on the screen and my text file?

would it be possible to use gotoxy?

for example:






void print(ifstream& input, ofstream& output);

void gotoxy(int x, int y);

void print(ifstream& input, ofstream& output)


{
int x, y;
COORD coord;
coord.X = x;
coord.Y = y;

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btw, i used the windows.h library.. are there any libraries that I could possibly use?

i don't understand what you mean. by "determine the XY coordinates of a character"

do you mean the line and column number of a particular character in the console buffer or what?

by XY, I mean rows,columns

For example, you are given the following text file and you are to determine the coordinates of Xs..
XOOXOOXXOX
XOOXOOOOOX
XOXXOOOXOO

The output would be:

“The coordinates of the # signs are:
1,1/1,4/1,7/1,8/1,10
2,1/2,4/2,10
3,1/3,3/3,4/3,8"

ok, so what are you confused about?

What code do you have that you can show us? For starters, try putting the contents of the text file into a 2D array and looping through that to find the X's.

that's probably not the best strategy imo.

i would read the file 1 character at a time, while maintaining column and row counters and push_back their current values onto a vector of coords whenever you find the needle in the haystack.