Searching Search results for required phrase

[oldbamaguy]

I am a rookie user here. I have a dual boot PC with MS Vista/ Ubuntu Linux. I used UNIX about 10 years ago and programmed in C. I am old (71) and retired and I thought, just for fun, I would do a bit of programming in C with a target, if I live long enough, to try C++.
I did a search for "running C" and I got -
"Hundreds of records matched your query of running c. Outputting records 1 to 20."
Finally the question, surely there is some way to search the search results to find the phrase. Some of the responses are quite long and they have unrelated titles.

So - can I search "the search results"??
If so, how please.
TYVM!!
ed mallett

 

[Noway2]

I will assume you used Google. If not, it may be your best choice because their algorithms are oriented towards determining relevancy and this may help filter some of the noise.

If you do a google search, at the bottom of the page you will see a small link titled "search within these results". This will enable you to add more keywords to refine the search results.

For example, I used it to search on your term "running C" and got - as you put it. I then did a search within these results and entered 'compiler'. This produced a lot of results, including how to compile C under Linux.

Part of it is just knowing, or guessing, what keywords to search for and part of it is just luck.

 

[oldbamaguy]

I used the "search" here a tek-tips (next to Forums) at top.
I did the search here at tek-tips on the Linux Desktop forum. I searched for "running c".
It seems to me that in the search, I would be using whatever tek-tips is using.
Pardon my ignorance ,(I am 71) but what does Google
have to do with it?
TYVM!!

 

[flyboytim]

The choice is huge, Ed.

I googled the following:

c++ programming environment linux

and there are over 5m hits

On Ubuntu System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager > Quick Search C++

brings up a shedload of tutorials, libraries, compilers, design tools, debug tools, APIs, IDEs etc.

IDEs - Integrated Development Environments - enable the programmer to write, compile and debug code within a coherent environment for rapid program development.

On Windows, there is the Microsoft Developers Network or MSDN, under the banner Visual Studio and dot net, much of it free or trial software for the aspiring Windows programmer

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/vstudio/default.aspx

Enough for anyone, I think

 

[flyboytim]

I misunderstood too, sorry. Hope this helps. The search is not always easy to use, I find. I put in c++ in find a forum and got zilch! The top left search box uses google to search tek tips, and c++ entered there finds all the relevant forums here.

Drilling down is more certain, either by Home > Forums > ... or the following:

At the top of this window, there are blue tabs, the first is Forums. The drop down menu there includes the forums list, and you can scroll down to the Programmers area, and then down to Languages, where you will find several flavours of C++, and you can ask the forum members there for tips that you need. You can add the threads that interest you to your archive.

Hope that helps.

 

[oldbamaguy]

Thanks for all the information!
As usual, "things are just not as easy as you might think".
I have four or five Linux, C, vi books on order that should arrive any day.
I was reading one of the responses where the person could not find the output of a compile. From 20 years ago, I remembered it would be in a.out by default.
Funny what things stick around in one's mind.
Many Many Thanks!!

 

[oldbamaguy]

FYI:
At the DBSTALK forum under a similiar search operation,
the words that were used to select a result are shown in the body of information in RED.
Best Wishes to ALL!!