Findin' Text

[XerxesTheMighty]

Lets say I have a file called data.dat(or a string stored). I load the file in my program, but I don't want the user to see it (like searching a database). How would I search that string or file, without the user knowing?

Apocalyptic Programmer

 

[bodhi]

I'm not sure I understand the question.

If, for example I had a CSV list or a parseable configuration file that I wanted info from 'on the fly' then I would create a linked list (or DPA) of structs/bins and just parse the information I needed into memory at load time. This requires no UI.

If you really need the entire file in memory then all you have to do is reserve a large enough buffer and copy.Your pointer to the buffer then acts as your 'index' for parsing.

Sorry if I've misunderstood - if you provide more details of what you want to do I'm sure someone can provide a fuller answer.

 

[XerxesTheMighty]

K, i've got the file into a buffer--but forget about that now.
I have a string, and without the user knowing I want to search that string for a string. Kinda like "Find" and "Find and Replace", only without the GUI (without the user knowing [and no replacing]).

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Xerxes Dynatos

 

[bodhi]

I would have thought you would simply use strstr() or some similar string class function.

 

[XerxesTheMighty]

strstr() doesn't work, and the Find/Replace dialog doesn't work either. Perhaps I could put it into a drop-down list and search the list, and I saw in the .h (header) LB_FINDSTRINGEXACT. But I can't figure how to work it though.

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Xerxes Dynatos