Thread: Find String inside Array?

Hello, I want to search for a string inside one array, and get the position (index) of the first (or last) char when this was found... I tryed this searching for "play":

Code:

		   while (i<(TamNew-5)){ //find if this is a spawn class
				if((NewStr[i]=="p")&&(NewStr[i+1]=="l")&&(NewStr[i+2]=="a")&&(NewStr[i+3]=="y"))
				{
					p=i;
					break;
				}
				i++;
		   }

but didn't work! I tryed before this:

Code:

char *p;
p = strstr(NewStr, "play");

but P return the mem address, not the array index that I need!

any clues?

thanks!!!

Code:

char *loc;
loc=p-NewStr;
printf("%d",loc);

will give you the index of the first char in the string
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seems like me and vart posted the same replay in the same time

didn't work, make the game abort... any other way? maybe without use pointers?

thanks!

NewStr is a array... could be that?

char NewStr[150];

i guess it should be

Code:

char *loc;
loc=New_str-p;
printf("%d",loc);

it works with me

Originally Posted by hajas

NewStr is a array... could be that?

char NewStr[150];

what do you mean !!!!!!!!!!!

seams that I can't create pointers... is just create one more than the game abort.

is there a way to do that search? why not working the i+1 index that I did? I remember to do this a lot in the past...

worked now!

Code:

char	*ptr = malloc(151);

			   strcpy(ptr,NewStr);
			   origem = strstr(ptr, "origin"); //find the origin position
			   loc = origem-ptr;
			   free(ptr);
               ori = loc + 8;

ori = 12! perfect! thanks!