Thread: Searching a string

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    Searching a string

    So i'm stumped. I've got a file that looks like this.

    Code:
    #include scripts/extra/loot_creatures_BHN.scp
    #include scripts/extra/loot_creatures_aq.scp
    #include scripts/extra/loot_creatures_revelers.scp
    #include scripts/extra/loot_creatures_elites.scp
    
    [loottemplate 3]
    loot=2794 100.000
    loot=884 100.000
    loot=1129 100.000
    loot=2059 0.013
    loot=2194 0.007
    loot=12998 0.006
    And I want to search the string until after the space, then grab those numbers. I'm not entirely sure how to do it. I thought of maybe using sizeof to determine the length of it, but still i've got no clue. any ideas?

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    Code:
    while( fgets( buf, BUFSIZ, fp ) )
    {
        if( ( ptr = strchr( buf, ' ' ) ) && *( ptr + 1 ) )
        {
            ptr++;
            /* you are just past the first space in the buffer, do something... */
        }
        else
        {
            /* no spaces, or nothing after the space, do whatever... */
        }
    }
    Look in your book, man page, etc, of choice if you're not familiar with either of the functions.

    Also, strlen returns the length of a string. sizeof does not unless you're very very lucky.


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    Or one for the sscanf junkie...
    Code:
    /* ... */
          char line[BUFSIZ];
          double value;
          while ( fgets(line, sizeof line, file) != NULL )
          {
             if ( sscanf(line, "loot=%*s %lf", &value) == 1 )
             {
                printf("value = %g\n", value);
             }
          }
    /* ... */
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    Thanks guys. Not all of it makes sense, especially the scanf stuff, but i'll figure it out. Thanks again!

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    Alrighty. So this is what I came up with. I haven't tried compiling it yet, because i'm still sketchy on writing it back to the file, so I wanted to pass it by you guys for inspection before I bothered. Again, any help is always appreciated!

    Code:
    void handle_file( int modifier, int max_allowed, int add_to )
    {
    	int x, par;
    
    	for ( x = 0; x < loot_count; x++ )
    	{
    		if ( ( modifier + add_to ) < max_allowed )
    		{
    			if ( modifier > max_allowed )
    			{
    				modifier = max_allowed;
    			}else{
    			modifier + add_to;
    
    			}
    		}
    	}
    
    	return modifier;
    }
    
    int main ( void )
    {
    	int max_allowed, add_to, x, modifier;
    	char filename[50];
    	char buf[1000];
    	char * ptr;
    
    
    	printf("Enter the filename to be used.\n");
    	scanf( "%s", filename );
    	printf("Enter the max allowed loot result.\n");
    	scanf( "%d", &max_allowed );
    	printf("Enter the number to add to the loot.\n");
    	scanf( "5d", &add_to );
    	printf("Processing...\n");
    
    	FILE * fp;
    
    
    	if ( fp = fopen( filename, "r" ) = NULL )
    	{
    		printf("Invalid file name.\n");
    		exit(1);
    	}
    
    	while( fgets( buf, BUFSIZ, fp ) )
    	{
    		if( ( ptr = strchr( buf, ' ' ) ) && *( ptr + 1 ) )
    		{
    		    ptr++;
    		    fscanf( buf, "%d" &modifier );
    		    handle_file( modifier, max_allowed, add_to );
    		    fprintf( buf, "%d", &modifier );
    	   	}else{
    			printf("Completed.\n");
    			exit(1);
    		}
    	}
    
    	return 0;
    }

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    First, posting expected input and output may be better than not-yet-compileable code; it is certainly easier to debug an example than your unseen intentions.

    Now I get a bit nit-picky.

    Code:
    	scanf( "%s", filename );
    User Input: Strings and Numbers [C]

    -----

    In the code,
    Code:
    	char buf[1000];
    	char * ptr;
    	/* ... */
    	FILE * fp;
    	if ( fp = fopen( filename, "r" ) = NULL )
    	/* ... */
    	while( fgets( buf, BUFSIZ, fp ) )
    	{
    		if( ( ptr = strchr( buf, ' ' ) ) && *( ptr + 1 ) )
    		{
    		    ptr++;
    		    fscanf( buf, "%d" &modifier );
    		    handle_file( modifier, max_allowed, add_to );
    		    fprintf( buf, "%d", &modifier );
    	/* ... */
    You need to look up the proper usage of the functions' parameters. And I wouldn't recommend mixing fgets with fscanf. If you open a file as read-only, how should you expect to write to it? And this gets us to muddier areas of modifiying a file in-place -- which brings me back to the start: what do you expect for input and output?
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    Also, be honest about your buffer sizes otherwise fgets() is little better than gets()

    > char buf[1000];
    > fgets( buf, BUFSIZ, fp )

    Either do
    char buf[BUFSIZ];

    Or
    fgets( buf, sizeof buf, fp )
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    Well the idea is I want to grab the number, then run it through the modifier, then overwrite the number I just got. I've done similar things by just clearing the entire thing. I'll use your examples though and see if I can knock something out. Thanks!

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