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search word in file

Dec 6th, 2007

Hi,

I want to ask if there function in library of c++ to search word in file ??

thank you

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Re: search word in file

Dec 6th, 2007

Not that I know of. You have to read some (all) of the file, then search using any of several possible methods.

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Re: search word in file

Dec 6th, 2007

>I want to ask if there function in library of c++ to search word in file ??
No. You need to break it down into smaller operations like reading a file and searching a string for a word. Then you can do this:

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std::ifstream in ( "myfile" );
 
if ( in ) {
  bool found = false;
  std::string search_for = "teapot";
  std::string word;
 
  while ( in>> word ) {
    if ( word == search_word ) {
      found = true;
      break;
    }
  }
 
  //...
}
std::ifstream in ( "myfile" );

if ( in ) {
  bool found = false;
  std::string search_for = "teapot";
  std::string word;

  while ( in>> word ) {
    if ( word == search_word ) {
      found = true;
      break;
    }
  }

  //...
}

Or this:

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std::ifstream in ( "myfile" );
 
if ( in ) {
  bool found = false;
  std::string search_for = "teapot";
  std::string line;
 
  while ( std::getline ( in, line ) ) {
    if ( word.find ( search_word ) != std::string::npos ) {
      found = true;
      break;
    }
  }
 
  //...
}
std::ifstream in ( "myfile" );

if ( in ) {
  bool found = false;
  std::string search_for = "teapot";
  std::string line;

  while ( std::getline ( in, line ) ) {
    if ( word.find ( search_word ) != std::string::npos ) {
      found = true;
      break;
    }
  }

  //...
}

For example.