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Re: Compare a string with a file.

May 11th, 2008

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Originally Posted by tharris7

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char dictword[32];    
}
char dictword[32]; }

Why use char arrays when c++ provides you with strings? Mixing up C and C++ is very confusing and will require a lot of casting. So what about something like:

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string word = "abc";
string dictword;
ifstream dictionary("dictionary.txt");
while (getline(dictionary, dictword, ' '))
{      
        if (word == dictword)
   		cout << "found: " << word << "\n";
}
string word = "abc";
string dictword;
ifstream dictionary("dictionary.txt");
while (getline(dictionary, dictword, ' '))
{      
        if (word == dictword)
   		cout << "found: " << word << "\n";
}

Off course you'll have to build in some error checking etc. And this code assumes that all words in textfile are delimited with a space. So some more work is required from you

Last edited by niek_e; May 11th, 2008 at 7:20 am.