Reading a File

[msmiley]

I have a file that I need to read and determine how many times a certain string appears. Is this possible? If so, how do I do it. The file is a plain text file in wordpad.

Thanks!!

 

[Zyrenthian]

I would go along the path of opening it with CFile and reading the whole thing into a buffer. (you can get the file size with CFileStatus or CStatus (cant remember acutall name)) Read it into a buffer and use strstr on it.


char* ptr = strstr(buffer,search_string);
int counter = 0;

while(ptr)
{
counter++;
ptr = strstr(ptr+1,search_string);
}

cout<<&quot;value occurs &quot;<<counter<<&quot; times&quot;;


Something like that could do it I think.

Matt

 

[msmiley]

So do I set the search_string to whatever I want to search?

 

[Zyrenthian]

yes... but it will be case sensitive... If that is a problem, convert the buffer with a CString::MakeUpper or MakeLower funciton.

Matt