Thread: searching input

  1. 01-23-2002 #1
    blackwyvern
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    Post searching input

    I am creating a program kind of like a chat bot. I am here to ask how I would go about searching user input.. say the user asks the bot, "How are you doing?"
    I want to to a search for key words that would let me know what is being said how I would properly respond to such a question, so I would search the input for question words, such as what, how, when, where and I would also want to do a search for a question mark, so I know it is a question.. Do you understnd what I am talking about? Please help out if so =)
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    There's a function called strstr() in <cstring> that searches for a word in a string and gives a pointer to the first occurrance....

    Therefore if you wanted to test for the word "dinner"

    Code:
    char mystring[] = "It's dinner time";
if(strstr(mystring,"dinner")!=NULL)
   cout << "dinner was present";
    Does that help?
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    that helps a lot. Thank you very much
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