Thread: Extracting a string from a buffer?

Again, I'm really new at this. I've tried searching on strings, strstr, etc. Stuff I found didn't seem to apply.

Code:

char *domainResponse=malloc(1000);

while(fgets(domainResponse, 1000, fp) != NULL)
  {
    /* String function here to search for 'no match for domain' */
    /*fputs(domainResponse, stdout);*/
 	
  }
  printf("%s\n", domainResponse);

I get nothing printed out.

Now, if I remove the comments from line 3 like this:

Code:

char *domainResponse=malloc(1000);

while(fgets(domainResponse, 1000, fp) != NULL)
  {
    /* String function here to search for 'no match for domain' */
    fputs(domainResponse, stdout);
	        	
  }
  /*printf("%s\n", domainResponse);*/

I get the results of the bw-whois lookup printed to the screen (actually, a html page)

I tried a strstr(domainResponse, "No match for domain") - but it always returned NULL, which led me to check what was in domainResponse. Seems if I do the fputs, domainResponse contains text; but if I just try to printf it, domainResponse seems empty. With the fputs operation, domainResponse has a long text paragraph.

Please help.

Thanks,
Tim

did you try it this way?:

Code:

while(fgets(domainResponse, 1000, fp))
{
.
.
.
}

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www.axisoftime.com

After I read your reply, I tried as you suggested. Using the code with the fputs() commented out and the printf() attempting to print domainResponse.

Same result. I'll leave as is and you can see - if you'd like.

http://www.tetradtech.com/domain_check.htm

What you should see on the page after you click on "submit" would be a paragraph responding with whether the domain was available or not.

Unfortunately, that doesn't show up.

Thanks,
Tim

Again, I'm new at this.

But when you place the results from stdout or stdin into a variable, that variable should contain whatever was read in, yes?

Whether domainResponse is in the while() statement or wherever, it should contain the results of the domain search.

But I think I'm on to something here, when I moved the fgets() out of the while() and the printf() out of the while(), I only get one line printed out. That's because fgets() reads until it encounters a '\0', correct?

So maybe the bw-whois is producing a newline at the end, and that's the last thing in the domainResponse variable.

-Tim

That was it...helps to print results to see what's actually happening and to include <br> in your html to see if text is split or one long paragraph. Apparently, the bw-whois prints the output as 4 or 5 separate paragraphs separated by newlines, so the last input into the buffer was a newline.

This bit of code fixed the problem and it's FINALLY working. Thanks again for all of your help to this error-prone newbie.

Code:

while(fgets(domainResponse, 1000, fp))
  {
    strcat(temp, domainResponse);
		
  }
  	
  printf("<br>\n");
  if(strstr(temp, "No match for domain")!=NULL)
  {
    printf("<b>The domain: %s is available!</b>\n", cgivars[1]);
  }
  else
  {
    printf("<b>The domain: %s is unavailable.</b>\n", cgivars[1]);
  }

Thanks again!

Code:

char temp = malloc(1000);