Several problems

[Talos]

Hi

I'm kindoff new to C-language so I've got a few questions.
I'm trying to make a program where the user first can enter some text (like in notepad or word or something like that in other words, full lines of text) And then I would like to replace several parts with other things.
More or less like this bulletin board would replace etc. with the appropriate code.

What I want to know is:
What is the best way to replace everything? First write all the input to a file or something like that and then replace or first replace etc.
Is there any function that can replace one part of a string with something else? (allready found something about strstr() )

tia

[itsme86]

Is there any function that can replace one part of a string with something else?

Sure there is, but you don't need a function to do it:

{
  char str[10] = "Hello";

  str[3] = 'k';
}

That will replace the 4th character (indexing starts at 0) with a k.

[Talos]

Ik know that but it's a bit more complicated :-)

eg:

char string[]="Test test [ B] TEST [/B ] test"
is my string, and I need to replace the following:
[B ]= \33\50\163\63\102
[/B ]= \33\50\163\60\102

I was thinking of looking for the part to replace with strstr() and then take away the first part of the string put it in a new string then put in the numbers and then take the last part of the string and put it in. And then loop this until all replaceble things are removed. (are pointers needed to accomplish this or not?)

[hk_mp5kpdw]

Can you use C++? Because then it is easy using the replace method for string objects. Otherwise you have a fixed amount of space in your character array which you can't alter, so you would have to deal with character pointers and dynamic memory allocation.

[Talos]

No C++, C only :-)

[Talos]

Found this code somewhere, (didn't know bumping wasn't allowed so I post it here) it should do what I want to do.

struct list{
	char text[255];
	int num;
	struct list *next;
	struct list *prior;
} list_entry;

//code on reading inputing

printf("Enter file content (CTRL-Z to end) : \n");
	while(gets(s)){
		info = (struct list *)malloc(sizeof(list_entry));
		if(!info){
			printf("\nnot enough memory");
			return;
		}
		strcpy(info->text,s);
		printf("info : %s",info);
		listStore(info, &start, &last);
	}
	printf("\n");
            store();

//code on writing to a file
       if((cfPtr=fopen(file,"w"))==NULL)
	printf("File could not be opened\n");
       else{
	while(info){
		printf("info2:%s",info->text);
		fwrite(info,sizeof(struct list),1,cfPtr);
		fflush(cfPtr);
		info = info->next;
	}
	fclose(cfPtr);
	info = start;
	clearList(&info);
	printf("File saved\n");
         }

//methods
void listStore(struct list *i, struct list **start, struct list **last)
{
	struct list *p;

	p = *last;

	if(*last ==NULL){		//first element in list
		i->next = NULL;
		i->prior = NULL;
		i->num = 0;
		*last = i;
		*start = i;
		return;
	}
	else{
		p->next = i;
		i->next = NULL;
		i->prior = p;
		i->num = (p->num)+1;
		*last = i;
	}

}

//to view

clearList(&info);
printf("\nLoading File...\n");
	system("cls");
	int count=0;
	while(!feof(fp)){
		info = (struct list *)malloc(sizeof(list_entry));
		if(!info){
			printf("\nnot enough memory");
				return 0;
		}
		if(1!=fread(info, sizeof(struct list), 1, fp)break;
			printf("info3 :%s",info);
			listStore(info,&start,&last);
			num++;
			count++;
	}
	fclose(fp);

Only prob is what types do the variables need? Hope someone can help me out.

[quzah]

It's best if you actually show an example of what it is you're trying to do. Give some sample input and the expected sample output. The code you've cited is bad at best for numerous reasons. So, clearly, in great detail, explain what it is you're trying to get done.

Quzah.

[Talos]

The code I posted earlier wasn't code I wrote, but I have begun writing my own code.

The first thing that I want to do is let the user enter sentences until some keypress to stop. And save these sentences in a linked list.
Afterwards I want to check that list for characters that have to be replaced.

My guess is that my following code isn't good at all (it doesn't even run correctly, but maybe it's best I use pointers and stuff?)

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

int main(void)
{
  typedef struct {
          char zin[255];
  } LIST;
  LIST lijn;
  
  char stop[]="stop";
  
  FILE *fOutput, *fInput;
  fOutput = fopen("Output.txt", "wb");
  
  scanf("%[^\n]%c",lijn.zin);
  while (strcmp(lijn.zin, stop) != 0)
  {
        fwrite(&lijn,sizeof(LIST), 1, fOutput);
        scanf("%[^\n]%c",lijn.zin);
  }
  fclose(fOutput);
  fInput = fopen("Output.txt","rb");
  while( fread(&lijn, sizeof(LIST), 1, fInput) == 1)
         printf("%s\n", lijn.zin);
  fclose(fInput);
    
  system("PAUSE");	


  return 0;
}

btw: lijn means line and zin means sentence, It's dutch and stuff

[Salem]

Well the first thing to master is using fgets() to read all input.

char buff[BUFSIZ];
while ( fgets( buff, BUFSIZ, stdin ) != NULL ) {
  char *p = strchr( buff, '\n' ); if ( p ) *p = '\0'; /* remove newline, if you really care */
  /* do something with buff */
}

> scanf("%[^\n]%c",lijn.zin);
This is illegal, because there are two %, and only one parameter.
Where the result of the %c gets stored is anyones guess (nowhere good for sure).