Strange String replacement...

Hello,

I'm not a C programmer for a long time (more than 8 years) and I don't know much more about the strings functions that we have today aside the basic ones...

I want to do some search/calculate/replace in a string but I don't know the functions well aside do in the hard code way, char by char... which I think should exist a better way to solve...

here's what I need:

I have a big string, and inside we have N times like this code:

"origin" "-264 -256 16"

the numbers aren't the same of course, and I need to replace all these origins in Z axis plus 15... (in this case, I need to add 15 to the 16 value)

so I need to turn that string into:

"origin" "-264 -256 31"

it's not always 2 chars, could be even like:

"origin" "-264 -256 1234"

but in all the cases is just add 15 to the Z axis to fix a bug.

so we need to get the number between the third space and third " after the string origin, convert to number, add 15, and replace in the string.

this must be done to all origins found on the string.

any ideas?

thanks a lot!

Sounds like something a regex library would be best able to do. Boost.Regex or Boost.Xpressive for example.

http://www.boost.org/

hmmm... went there... but is so much big to be an answer... :(

I really want a function(s) that set 2 positions in a string and bring me that substring, then I need to changed and replace back.

I would use a stringstream to read the data into separate variables and write it back out again with the appropriate changes. Doing string manipulation is hard because you don't know how many digits the numbers are.

This is not very good, but heres an example I made that gets the index of the first space, and then the first " that comes after it. It would need some work to do what you want it to do, but its just to give a rough idea of how you can get these two indexes. (sorry its in C)

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>

void GetSection(char*s)
{
    int count=0;
    int start_index=-1;
    int end_index;
    while(*s)
    {
              if(start_index == -1)
              {
                    if(*s == ' ')
                          start_index=count;
              }
              else if(*s == '"')
                      end_index=count;
              s++; 
              count++;       
    }
    printf("Start: &#37;i    End: %i", start_index, end_index);
}

int main()
{
    char str[]="dejfd siEUGH\"Fedfj";
    puts(str);
    GetSection(&str[0]);
    getchar();
}

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Then you just need to split the string in three parts, convert the middle part to a number, add 15 to it, convert it back to a string, then concatenate the three strings.

Perhaps the least efficient way, but I think it oughta work:

Code:

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void change_em(std::vector<std::string> & coords)
{
  std::stringstream s;
  int x, y, z;
  std::vector<std::string>::iterator it = coords.begin();

  while(++it != coords.end())
  {
    s.str(*it);
    s >> x >> y >> z;
    z += 15;
    s.str(std::string());  //in case z < 0 and + 15 makes for fewer digits
    s << x << y << z;
    *it = s.str();
    x = y = z = 0;
  }
}

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If you just want the answer, and don't even care about what language it's written in, then use something like this

Code:

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#!/bin/perl -w
use strict;
while ( <> ) {
    if ( /(.*?)(\d+)\"/ ) {
        print $1 . ($2+15) . "\"\n";
    }
}

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I copy/pasted a couple of lines and got

Code:

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$ perl foo.pl
"origin" "-264 -256 16"
"origin" "-264 -256 31"
"origin" "-264 -256 1234"
"origin" "-264 -256 1249"

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hmmm... it's not question of logic, but language knownlege... which I don't know how to do it in C, but I can do it in Cold Fusion per exemple... :D

and another thing, the string don't have ONLY code like I show you, here a real exemple:

Code:

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{"classname" "worldspawn"}{"origin" "-256 248 16""classname" "info_player_deathmatch"}{"classname" "info_player_deathmatch""origin" "248 256 16"}{"origin" "248 -256 16""classname" "info_player_deathmatch"}{"classname" "info_player_deathmatch""origin" "-264 -256 16"}{"origin" "-176 -200 24""classname" "weapon_rocketlauncher"}{"classname" "weapon_rocketlauncher""origin" "-184 192 24"}{"origin" "168 184 24""classname" "weapon_rocketlauncher"}{"origin" "-184 -264 24""classname" "ammo_rockets"}{"classname" "ammo_rockets""origin" "192 -256 24"}{"origin" "184 128 24""classname" "ammo_rockets"}{"classname" "ammo_rockets""origin" "-184 128 24"}{"origin" "216 -192 24""classname" "weapon_rocketlauncher"}{"light" "400""origin" "-8 0 208""classname" "light"}

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ok, so I need to change Z, adding 15 to them to EVERY origin in this code.

so I must to find "origin" first, got the substring between the next 3rd space and next ", convert to number (I think is needed), add 15, and replace in the original string... this must be made to each origin ONCE! and ONLY once!

so I really need this answer in C++ or at least and C....

thanks for all the help!

take a look in this pseudocode:

Code:

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while can find "origin" into String do {
  strReplaceFirst (String, origin, fhajas); // replace FIRST origin for fhajas in the string
  posA = find 3rd space after fhajas;
  posB = find next " after posA;
  Str1 = GetSubstring (String[0],posA);
  Str2 = GetSubstring (posB,String[size]);
  num = GetSubstring (posA, posB);
  ToNumber(num) += 15;
  String = Str1 + num + Str2;
}
strReplace (String, fhajas, origin) // replace ALL fhajas for origin in the string

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could you write this in C++ to me?

feel free to suggest a better solution. ;)

thanks a lot!

well, I realize that I can't change all origins, because I'll cause problems to other classes....
so I can only change info_player_deathmatch and info_player_start classes

so here the new pseudocode to solve this:

Code:

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set working = 1;
while working == 1 {
        if "{" not found{
                set working = 0;
        else{
                subs = GetSubstring(String, first {, first });
                Str1 = GetSubstring (String[0], subs[0]);
                Str2 = GetSubstring (subs[size],String[size]);
                if found (info_player_deathmatch || info_player_start) in subs {
                          find "origin" location;
                        posA = find 3rd space after origin location;
                        posB = find next " after posA;
                        Subs1 = GetSubstring (subs[0],posA);
                        Subs2 = GetSubstring (posB,subs[size]);
                        num = GetSubstring (posA, posB);
                        ToNumber(num) += 15;
                          subs = Subs1 + num + Subs2;
                        ReplaceAll (subs, {, [);
                        ReplaceAll (subs, }, ]);
                }
        }
}
ReplaceAll (String, [, {);
ReplaceAll (String, ], });

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any inputs?

You've got the pseudo-code, now go ahead and do it.

Or at least have a go at it.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Salem

You've got the pseudo-code, now go ahead and do it.

Or at least have a go at it.

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can you give me the right functions to use? I know how to code, I only don't want to code anything since I know that must have functions that already can make this.

if not, I'll need to make this functions too... :(

here my "fake" fuctions used:

ReplaceAll (String, StringRemove, StringReplace)
- replace all strings found by another inside a string

GetSubstring (String, pointA, pointB)
- get a substring between two points

find (String, StringToFind)
- return the location of the StringToFind inside the String

all this functions exists in ColdFusion per exemple, so must exist something at least similar in C++ right? that's all I'm asking... I already have and wrote the solution, I only need to convert to C++ which I don't have experience and don't know much functions.

thanks again!

Here's a list
http://cs.stmarys.ca/~porter/csc/ref...ib.html#string

thanks m8! it's a start.

well, didn't work at all... even the string declaration... so seams is just C? not C++?

I did like the link you give me

string s;

then compile:

qcommon\cmodel.c(495) : error C2065: 'string' : undeclared identifier
qcommon\cmodel.c(495) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 's'

???