Search for case insensensitive strings within a .txt file

[greg677]

I mostly have this program completed but there is one problem i cannot figure out, this programs asks the user to search for a word, next the user is asked which file to open, then the program is to search the .txt file for any traces for the word that has been searched, whether it its upper case or lower case.

However in my example with the supplied .txt file, i try to search for the word "Peter" i get the following

Please enter the word you would like to search for.
peter
Please enter the filename to read from.
words.txt
Word found: THis is a sentence
 Line: 1

Word found: peter how many words does it contain
 Line: 2

Kinda weird if you ask me lol.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

void stringtolower(char * str);

int main()
{
   char searchword[100];
   char filename[100];
   char word[100];
   char originalword[100];

   printf("Please enter the word you would like to search for.\n");
   scanf("%s", searchword);
   stringtolower(searchword);
   printf("Please enter the filename to read from.\n");
   scanf("%s", filename);

   FILE * fptr;
   fptr = fopen(filename, "r");

   if (fptr == NULL)
   {
      printf("Error file was not opened correctly\n");
      exit(1);
   }

   else
   {
      int lineNumber = 1;
      while(fgets(word, 100, fptr) != NULL)
      {
         strcpy(originalword, word);
         stringtolower(word);
         if (strcmp(word, searchword) ==1)
         {

            printf("Word found: %s Line: %d\n\n", originalword, lineNumber);
         }
         lineNumber++;
      }
   }
   fclose(fptr);

   return 0;
}

void stringtolower(char * str)
{
   int i;

   for (i=0; i < strlen(str); i++)
   {
      if (str[i] >= 'A' && str[i] <='Z')
      {
      str[i] = str[i] + ('a' - 'A');
      }
   }
}

[tabstop]

You should re-examine your use of strcmp, specifically what it means when it returns "1".

[greg677]

yes, i see what you mean, but its (my fault from not telling you at first post) supposed to search for the word "peter" and in the .txt file thier is one called "PetER" now the program goes to the stringtolower function and scans the document and converts all uppercase letters into lower case, when the function is completed strcpy copies the word into another string so it retains its original lettering in this case "PetER" then the rest of the program is only meant to output the lines that have the word peter in it without displaying the rest of the lines during output

An example:

Please enter the word you would like to search for.
PetER
Please enter the filename to read from.
words.txt
Word found: this is a sentence
 Line: 1

Word found: peter how many words does it contain
 Line: 2

Word found: if
 Line: 3

Word found: add more words peter
 Line: 5

Word found: how about this program
 Line: 6

While it should do:

Please enter the word you would like to search for.
PetER
Please enter the filename to read from.
words.txt
Word found: peter how many words does it contain
 Line: 2

Word found: add more words PetER
 Line: 5

[claudiu]

yes, i see what you mean, but its (my fault from not telling you at first post) supposed to search for the word "peter" and in the .txt file thier is one called "PetER" now the program goes to the stringtolower function and scans the document and converts all uppercase letters into lower case, when the function is completed strcpy copies the word into another string so it retains its original lettering in this case "PetER" then the rest of the program is only meant to output the lines that have the word peter in it without displaying the rest of the lines during output

An example:

Please enter the word you would like to search for.
PetER
Please enter the filename to read from.
words.txt
Word found: this is a sentence
 Line: 1

Word found: peter how many words does it contain
 Line: 2

Word found: if
 Line: 3

Word found: add more words peter
 Line: 5

Word found: how about this program
 Line: 6

While it should do:

Please enter the word you would like to search for.
PetER
Please enter the filename to read from.
words.txt
Word found: peter how many words does it contain
 Line: 2

Word found: add more words PetER
 Line: 5

You still don't seem to understand the return values of strcmp. I suggest you look up this function online and stop assuming it returns 1 when two strings are equal.

[greg677]

ok managed to get it working, but the unnecessary lines are still showing, how can i only display the ones that have the word i searched for? thanks for the help so far.

[quzah]

Considering you must have some way of knowing if you have found a match, then you should add in there the part that prints that line, right there. Basically, if you're already doing something like so:

if( findmatch( word, line ) == YAY )
{
    increasesomecounter++;
}

Then you should change it to something like this:

if( findmatch( word, line ) == YAY )
{
    increasesomecounter++;
    print out whatever you need to print( ie: print line )
}

Quzah.