Finding a word in a string.

Basically looking for an easy way to do this for example:-

I have a string such as below, and I want to find out if it contains
the string "won" (I need to know who won the game).
"Seat 4: My_poker_id (big blind) showed [Jh Ad] and won (3672) with Two Pairs, Eights and Fives, Ace high"

If there an easy way to do this?

To simplify it a little you can ignore the first part of the string and just use

"(big blind) showed [Jh Ad] and won (3672) with Two Pairs, Eights and Fives, Ace high"

points to note - the (big blind) bit might not be there, and "won" might not be
there at all and the strings might be as below.
As an example I would probably looking through the lines to find out who won.

Seat 1: playername1 (big blind) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: another layer folded on the Flop
Seat 3: anotherplayer3 collected 112
Seat 4: My_poker_id (big blind) showed [Jh Ad] and won (3672) with Two pairs, Eights and Fives, Ace high
Seat 5: yetanother (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: amdanother (small blind) folded before Flop (didn't bet)

I don't think there is an easy was to so it with sscanf?
Is there something else I should be using, or should I just search for 'w' then
'o' then 'n'.I guesss that would be easiest.

How about strstr()?

Quote:

Originally Posted by dwks

How about strstr()?

May be that will work, probably will actually buit I already have done this in the meantime.

(the string being searched is in var2.) Should I use EOF or EOL or \0 or what?

Code:

int a1; for(a1=0; var2[a1]!=EOF; a1++) { if(var2[a1]=='w' { if (strcmp(&var2[a1],"won" ==0) { printf("\n FOund it!! %s won, player"); break; } } }

Or just to explain that segment more with more of the code, the initial string is in var1.

Code:

sscanf(var1,"Seat %d: %s %[^\n]\n",&seatnum,player,var2); { int a1; for(a1=0; var2[a1]!=EOF; a1++) { if(var2[a1]=='w' { if (strcmp(&var2[a1],"won" ==0) { printf("\n FOund it!! %s won, player"); break; } } } }

So basically I just search for a 'w' and then do a strcmp for "won" that should do the trick :)
Strstr is probably better, actually now I have read the description of it it is ideal!

I will use strstr if my code fails!! (probably will!!).
I don't know the libaries very well, I probably should but usually find it quicker to write the
code myself than search for the correct function!! However in the long run it would be better
to know the libaries!!
Thanks for your help!!!

I don't believe the above code would work. Think of what would happen with the string "akjldfhwondjkhjfad".

Code:

printf("\n FOund it!! %s won, player");

The " is misplaced.

Found some bugs!!

Code:

sscanf(var1,"Seat %d: %s %[^\n]\n",&seatnum,player,var2); { int a1; for(a1=0; var2[a1]!=EOF; a1++) { if(var2[a1]=='w') { if ( strcmp(&var2[a1],"won") ==0) { printf("\n FOund it!! %s won, player"); break; } } }

Quote:

Originally Posted by Happy_Reaper

I don't believe the above code would work. Think of what would happen with the string "akjldfhwondjkhjfad".

Fair point. If the strings were of a generalized nature if would fail, however they are very specific and limited in their context and "won" should only occur as " won ", well I hope so anyway!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by dwks

Code:

printf("\n FOund it!! %s won, player");

The " is misplaced.

Well spotted Sherlock!! (as in Sherlock Holmes).
Actually it does compile, but "other bugs" stop it getting that far!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by esbo

Fair point. If the strings were of a generalized nature if would fail, however they are very specific and limited in their context and "won" should only occur as " won ", well I hope so anyway!!

Even at that. Remember that "won" and "won " are not the same string.

EOF cannot be stored in a char, so it will likely trample off the end of your string and across whatever memory follows it until it happens to find something that evaluates to its interpretation of EOF. Or until it crashes.

Quzah.

Quote:

Well spotted Sherlock!! (as in Sherlock Holmes)

Thanks for clearing that one up. :rolleyes:

jk

Quote:

Originally Posted by psychopath

Thanks for clearing that one up. :rolleyes:

jk

Well I like to be verbose, osme people might not "get it", I find it annoying for example when some people use acronyms, which I do not know, without expanding them.

Quote:

Originally Posted by quzah

EOF cannot be stored in a char, so it will likely trample off the end of your string and across whatever memory follows it until it happens to find something that evaluates to its interpretation of EOF. Or until it crashes.

Quzah.

Well in the 'early days' if probably couuld have, things have moved on since then I guess;
Anyway I have 'dumped' my code and I am using strstr as dwks recommended
(the code I wrote didn't!!)

No, in the early days it didn't fit in a char either.

Quzah.

Thanks for all your help guys, I have got the code working in a fashion, probably a bug or two still left in there though:p but the code I will post next shows I can identify the winner of a poker tournement.
The first 'field' before the "-1" is the tournement name, and the winner of a particular hand is shown after that. (In some hands there is no winner because nobody bets)
The key point is that the last player to be shown winning win has won the tournement, so the last player show as winning before the tournement name/number changes won the tournement.

So you can see:-
robster4 won the first one.
Vol1976 won the second
Theego001 won the third
and My_Poker_ID won the last two.

(I also came second in one of the tournents, and third in the other two) You get a payout for coming second, 1.5 times your entry fee, (you get 4.5 times it for winning)), so my total winnings were 10.5 'points' and it cost me 5 points in total to enter, a return of £10.50 from £5, which is nice :) (well actuall from £7.50 because you pay a £0.5 admin fee!!)
Of course I don't always do that well, but now I have this program I can see how I do over thousands of games (it will take a while to run!!). I might give up playing the tournements
because the admin fee is 10%, as opposed to 5% in other games. But tournements are more fun!!

It is actually a modification of a program I wrote to analyse my winnings in none
tournement game (a much more compllicate program which took a fair time to write!! but works well, showing lots of statistics on my and my opponents play).
I will futher modify this tournement program to show how well I and other players do, easier in comparision because you only have to find who wins and comes second, in none tournement games you have to process every individual bet and win in every game!!

I might even post the source code if anyone is interested!! (600 lines of badly written code but it does work well!!)

The program does not really help you a great deal in actually playing poker, but it can be helpfull to see who the good and poor players are (sometimes). However you need hell of a lot of hands to distinguish between bad play and bad luck!!
So its better just to concentrate on playing well.

The programs out follows (I changed my real poker ID ;) )

My programs output! :-

SixPak10 3326763 - 1
SixPak10 3326763 - 1
SixPak10 3326763 - 1 Found it!! Trikerwez won
SixPak10 3326763 - 1 Found it!! Trikerwez won
SixPak10 3326763 - 1
SixPak10 3326763 - 1
SixPak10 3326763 - 1 Found it!! My_Poker_ID won Found it!! My_Poker_ID won
SixPak10 3326763 - 1
SixPak10 3326763 - 1
SixPak10 3326763 - 1 Found it!! Trikerwez won
SixPak10 3326897 - 1
SixPak10 3326897 - 1 Found it!! Kukuss won
SixPak10 3326897 - 1 Found it!! Steveyue won
SixPak10 3326897 - 1
SixPak10 3326897 - 1 Found it!! Joanne033 won
SixPak10 3326897 - 1
SixPak10 3326897 - 1 Found it!! Kukuss won
SixPak10 3326897 - 1 Found it!! robster4 won
SixPak10 3326897 - 1 Found it!! Steveyue won
SixPak10 3326897 - 1
SixPak10 3326897 - 1 Found it!! Steveyue won
SixPak10 3326897 - 1 Found it!! Calu26061 won
SixPak10 3326897 - 1 Found it!! Calu26061 won Found it!! My_Poker_ID won Found it!! My_Poker_ID won
SixPak10 3326897 - 1 Found it!! Joanne033 won Found it!! My_Poker_ID won Found it!! My_Poker_ID won
SixPak10 3326897 - 1 Found it!! Joanne033 won
SixPak10 3326897 - 1
SixPak10 3326897 - 1 Found it!! Joanne033 won
SixPak10 3326897 - 1 Found it!! Joanne033 won
SixPak10 3326897 - 1 Found it!! Joanne033 won
SixPak10 3326897 - 1 Found it!! robster4 won
SixPak10 3326897 - 1 Found it!! Joanne033 won
SixPak10 3326897 - 1 Found it!! Joanne033 won
SixPak10 3326897 - 1 Found it!! Joanne033 won
SixPak10 3326897 - 1 Found it!! Joanne033 won
SixPak10 3326897 - 1
SixPak10 3326897 - 1 Found it!! robster4 won
SixPak10 3326897 - 1
SixPak10 3326897 - 1 Found it!! Joanne033 won
SixPak10 3326897 - 1 Found it!! Calu26061 won
SixPak10 3326897 - 1 Found it!! Joanne033 won
SixPak10 3326897 - 1 Found it!! robster4 won
SixPak10 3326897 - 1 Found it!! robster4 won
SixPak10 3326897 - 1 Found it!! Kukuss won Found it!! robster4 won
SixPak10 3326897 - 1 Found it!! Joanne033 won Found it!! Kukuss won
SixPak10 3326897 - 1 Found it!! robster4 won
SixPak10 3326897 - 1 Found it!! robster4 won
SixPak10 3326897 - 1 Found it!! robster4 won
SixPak10 3326897 - 1 Found it!! Joanne033 won
SixPak10 3326897 - 1
SixPak10 3326897 - 1 Found it!! My_Poker_ID won Found it!! My_Poker_ID won
SixPak10 3326897 - 1 Found it!! Joanne033 won
SixPak10 3326897 - 1
SixPak10 3326897 - 1
SixPak10 3326897 - 1
SixPak10 3326897 - 1
SixPak10 3326897 - 1 Found it!! robster4 won
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1 Found it!! My_Poker_ID won
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1 Found it!! andylau won Found it!! andylau won
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1 Found it!! andylau won Found it!! andylau won
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1 Found it!! My_Poker_ID won
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1 Found it!! Tangolima won
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1 Found it!! andylau won Found it!! andylau won
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1 Found it!! Tangolima won
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1 Found it!! Tangolima won
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1 Found it!! Tangolima won
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1 Found it!! Tangolima won
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1 Found it!! Vol1976 won
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1 Found it!! Tangolima won
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1 Found it!! My_Poker_ID won Found it!! My_Poker_ID won
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1 Found it!! My_Poker_ID won Found it!! My_Poker_ID won
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1 Found it!! Vol1976 won
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1 Found it!! Tangolima won
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1 Found it!! Vol1976 won
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1 Found it!! Vol1976 won
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1 Found it!! My_Poker_ID won Found it!! My_Poker_ID won
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3327191 - 1 Found it!! Vol1976 won
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
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SixPak10 3332891 - 1 Found it!! Costy won
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
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SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1 Found it!! Stewie_G won
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1 Found it!! My_Poker_ID won
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
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SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
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SixPak10 3332891 - 1 Found it!! Wegstar22 won Found it!! My_Poker_ID won
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1 Found it!! My_Poker_ID won
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1 Found it!! Theego001 won Found it!! Theego001 won
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1 Found it!! Stewie_G won
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1 Found it!! My_Poker_ID won
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1 Found it!! Costy won Found it!! My_Poker_ID won
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1 Found it!! My_Poker_ID won
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1
SixPak10 3332891 - 1 Found it!! Stewie_G won
SixPak10 3332891 - 1 Found it!! Theego001 won Found it!! Theego001 won
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1 Found it!! Dhar09064 won
THUNDER Sixpak05 3333340 - 1 Found it!! Anya won
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1 Found it!! My_Poker_ID won
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1 Found it!! rabbitohs won Found it!! rabbitohs won
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1 Found it!! rabbitohs won Found it!! rabbitohs won
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
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THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
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THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
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THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1 Found it!! My_Poker_ID won
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1 Found it!! rabbitohs won Found it!! rabbitohs won
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1 Found it!! Wakaremas won
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1 Found it!! My_Poker_ID won
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1 Found it!! rabbitohs won Found it!! rabbitohs won
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1 Found it!! My_Poker_ID won
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1
THUNDER Sixpak10 3333327 - 1 Found it!! My_Poker_ID won
SixPak10 3339324 - 1 Found it!! Willy won
SixPak10 3339324 - 1
SixPak10 3339324 - 1
SixPak10 3339324 - 1
SixPak10 3339324 - 1
SixPak10 3339324 - 1 Found it!! Willy won
SixPak10 3339324 - 1 Found it!! NeGoLove won
SixPak10 3339324 - 1
SixPak10 3339324 - 1 Found it!! Willy won
SixPak10 3339324 - 1
SixPak10 3339324 - 1
SixPak10 3339324 - 1
SixPak10 3339324 - 1 Found it!! My_Poker_ID won
SixPak10 3339324 - 1
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SixPak10 3339324 - 1 Found it!! scott0707 won
SixPak10 3339324 - 1
SixPak10 3339324 - 1 Found it!! Willy won
SixPak10 3339324 - 1 Found it!! scott0707 won
SixPak10 3339324 - 1
SixPak10 3339324 - 1 Found it!! scott0707 won
SixPak10 3339324 - 1
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SixPak10 3339324 - 1
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SixPak10 3339324 - 1 Found it!! Willy won
SixPak10 3339324 - 1 Found it!! scott0707 won
SixPak10 3339324 - 1
SixPak10 3339324 - 1 Found it!! Going4gut won Found it!! Going4gut won
SixPak10 3339324 - 1
SixPak10 3339324 - 1
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SixPak10 3339324 - 1 Found it!! scott0707 won
SixPak10 3339324 - 1
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SixPak10 3339324 - 1
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SixPak10 3339324 - 1 Found it!! scott0707 won
SixPak10 3339324 - 1
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SixPak10 3339324 - 1 Found it!! Going4gut won Found it!! Going4gut won
SixPak10 3339324 - 1
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SixPak10 3339324 - 1
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SixPak10 3339324 - 1 Found it!! scott0707 won
SixPak10 3339324 - 1 Found it!! My_Poker_ID won
SixPak10 3339324 - 1
SixPak10 3339324 - 1
SixPak10 3339324 - 1
SixPak10 3339324 - 1
SixPak10 3339324 - 1 Found it!! scott0707 won
SixPak10 3339324 - 1
SixPak10 3339324 - 1 Found it!! My_Poker_ID won
SixPak10 3339324 - 1
SixPak10 3339324 - 1
SixPak10 3339324 - 1
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SixPak10 3339324 - 1 Found it!! My_Poker_ID won