Thread: Read string until find char

How about this, wrote it up ages ago for reading froma file though

Code:

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

int main(void) { 
        char c, *buffer; 
        int n = 0, x, size; 
        FILE *file; 
        file = fopen("a_test_file.txt", "rb"); 
        if(file == NULL) perror("Error opening file!"); 
        else { 
                while(c != EOF) { 
                        c = fgetc(file); 
                        if(c == ';') { 
                                x = ftell(file); 
                        } 
                } 
                fseek(file, 0, SEEK_END); 
                size = ftell(file); 
                rewind(file); 

                buffer = (char*) malloc(size-x); 
                if(buffer == NULL) perror("Error allocating memory!"); 

                fseek(file, x, SEEK_SET); 
                fread(buffer, 1, size-x, file); 
                fclose(file); 
                printf("File Size: %i\nByte: %i\nBytes Left: %i\nText After: %s\n", size, x, size-x, buffer); 
                free(buffer); 
        } 
        return 0; 
}

That will search inside a file, i wrote this ages ago, you can easily substitue the reading from the file to the reading of a string...

Hope this helps