Thread: find first occurance of a string in a file

hi all post #1 :]

i've got a file that is generated by a program i've made. the first few lines of the file are comments, deliminated by #'s. i'd like to be able to do a fscanf on each line of the file, disregarding the first few lines, to input data. now the number of commented lines at the top of the file may be a few or a bunch. here is an example of the file i'm talking about...

# a bunch of commments here...
# cprogramming.c is cool!
# etc...

prog etc and so on

i need to find the first occurance of the word "prog" because that is the line at which my "important" data starts. is there a simple way to do this? i was thinking read each word into a string and strcmp it for "prog" but i'm sure it can be done more efficiently. thanks!

-justin

if you're using string classes, use the find() function.