Regcomp?

[bartz]

I'm making my first C script, it logs on to a website and checks if it succeeded. Therefor, I need to check if the page contains "Je bent nu ingelogd". The website is saved in char *res.

Can anyone help? I wanted to use regcomp but I didn't understand the man page and I couldn't find any good example on this site or google.

Thanks!

[maxorator]

Write your own search function.
It isn't so hard.

[bartz]

Well, for me it is, this is my first C script 8-)

[maxorator]

Go back to Hello World and tutorials then!

[Prelude]

>Write your own search function.
>It isn't so hard.
The actual search isn't terribly difficult, but connecting to a web server and downloading the contents of a page isn't exactly trivial.

>Well, for me it is, this is my first C script 8-)
You probably don't want to do it in C. I would tend more toward Perl for something like this.

[maxorator]

I wouldn't use scripting languages in real programs.
I would use scripting languages in web sites.

This is some kind of a search function. It is terrible and may be buggy, so beware:

int search(char* data,char* find){
    int i,match=0,findlen,start;
    if(find[0]=='\0'){
        return -1;
    }
    findlen=strlen(find);
    for(i=0;data[i]!='\0';i++){
        if(data[i]==find[match]){
            if(match==0){
                start=i;
            }
            match++;
            if(match==findlen){
                return start;
            }
        }
        else{
            if(match>0){
                match=0;
                if(data[i]==find[0]){
                    start=i;
                    match=1;
                    if(findlen==1){
                        return start;
                    }
                }
            }
            else{
                match=0;
            }
        }
    }
    return -1;
}

If the second string is found in the first string, then it returns the location where it starts.
Otherwise it returns -1.

[Prelude]

>I wouldn't use scripting languages in real programs.
Why not?

>This is some kind of a search function. It is terrible and may be buggy, so beware:
It's a good thing standard C provides strstr.

[maxorator]

Why not?

Because it is a SCRIPTING language, not a PROGRAMMING language. It needs INTERPRETER.

I have already told it's a lot more fun to make the whole function myself.

[Prelude]

>Because it is a SCRIPTING language, not a PROGRAMMING language. It needs INTERPRETER.
Excuse me, I need to go beg webmaster for a "stunned silence" smiley.

>I have already told it's a lot more fun to make the whole function myself.
I don't have a problem with that. What I have a problem with is your completely ignoring a better solution and making a beeline to your own naive code. You can post your own implementation if you want, but please do so after properly answering the question to the best of your ability.

[quzah]

You should have seen by now that every single thing maxorator says is ... I can't even locate the correct word. Inept? Pointless? Wrong? Eye-bleed-inducing? I'm going to have to start making up words for it.


Quzah.

[Prelude]

>I'm going to have to start making up words for it.
Just call him a Mister C and be done with it. Ah, I kill me. That reminds me to read his book on C#...