Thread: Find specific text.

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    Find specific text.

    Hi,

    I have the following string:

    <INPUT TYPE="text" SIZE=40 NAME="user" VALUE="john"> <br>

    i would like to extract the VALUE so in this case "john", and then replace it with something else. Can regular expressions be used in C?

    Thanks
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    Is it possible? Sure. Is it the easiest thing? No.
    Searching and finding is easy. Try strchr (I think).
    To replace "john" with something else, you may have to move data back of forth first (memmove), and then copy the appropriate string into place (strcpy).
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    There are regular expression libraries that you can use in C. Search the web (e.g. sourceforge).

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