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somename
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find and replace string in a text file

Hello. I am trying to find out how to write a function to replace a string in a text file . So far i got this: find -> is a
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word i am looking for replace , rep -> new word , f1
-> my file . And i'm stuck with that piece of code:
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1. while ( fgets( buff, BUFSIZ, f1 ) != NULL ) { 2. if ( strstr( buff, find ) != NULL ) {...
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so i'm thinking about something like that:
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1. strcpy(buff2, (buff - strlen(find) + strlen(rep) + 1); 2. fputs(buff2, f2)
where f2 is output file . So plz, maybe anyone can help me with this code?
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I don't get why you use fgets. If it 's an ASCII file , and Clockowl
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it should be for the thing you're trying to do, all you
need to do is strstr(buff, find) and then memcpy. Not strcpy, in an ASCII file aren't any NULL bytes. Well, not that I know of. I've never encountered NULL bytes in an ASCII file . So it 'd be more like this:
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1. //read in the whole file
2. char *ptr = strstr(buf, find); 3. memcpy(ptr, find, sizeof(char) * strlen(find));
Something like that.
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jephthah
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WHOA, whoa, whoa... Clockowl. That is so, SO wrong, I dont know where to start. Did you even try this? have you ever tried this? of course not, it would never even remotely work. It doesnt even make SENSE. IMHO, you need to read more and help less. a lot less.
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SOMENAME: C does not lend itself to easily extracting and replacing arbitrary text from a text field. if thats the case, then you can use a combination of functions like FSEEK, FTELL and REWIND. if its not the case ( and it tends to not be the case for typical applications), then you will need to : file . you can do it , only if the
field from which you are extracting/replacing is a FIXED WIDTH. there can not be any variation in the width of the
--open the original file for reading --open a new file for writing --read orig file one line at a time, modifing as needed --write that line to the new file . --when done, delete the original file --rename the new file with the original file 's name.
sucks, i know. if you really need to get into serious text file manipulation, you might look into Perl. but that's a whole 'nother can of worms.
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Clockowl
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What's wrong about it ? Okay, it 's fixed length only, but that's like... obvious. I've parsed text in C . Never something like changing a string though, but I don't see why this method wouldn't work given it 's a fixed length string/word.
tesuji
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To search for strings in ascii files there exists the amazing KnuthMorrisPratt string searching algorithm. It is
faster than anything. Try it , and you will be delighted.
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SOMENAME: you're essentially on the right track, and you've basically got it . i think you're getting bogged down in some detail or other. check this out, and see how it 's pretty much what you're doing:
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1. #include <stdio.h> 2. #include <string.h> 3. 4. #define MAX_LEN_SINGLE_LINE 5. 6. int main() 7. { 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. } } fclose(fp2); fclose(fp1); return 0; } fputs(buff_ptr,fp2); fp1 = fopen(fileOrig,"r"); fp2 = fopen(fileRepl,"w"); while(fgets(buffer,MAX_LEN_SINGLE_LINE+2,fp1)) { buff_ptr = buffer; while ((find_ptr = strstr(buff_ptr,text2find))) { while(buff_ptr < find_ptr) fputc((int)*buff_ptr++,fp2); fputs(text2repl,fp2); buff_ptr += find_len; const char fileOrig[32] = "myOriginalFile.txt"; const char fileRepl[32] = "myReplacedFile.txt"; const char text2find[80] = "lookforme"; const char text2repl[80] = "REPLACE_WITH_THIS"; char buffer[MAX_LEN_SINGLE_LINE+2]; char *buff_ptr, *find_ptr; FILE *fp1, *fp2; size_t find_len = strlen(text2find); 120 // ?
it has a couple caveats... it requires that you #define the max length of a call also, it won't find a
file line. any that exceed that length
are at risk of missing an instance of the search text. could be a candidate for a carefully implemented malloc()
search text that is split across two lines. which would be a serious flaw in many situations.
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guys, thank you very much for your replies, especially jephthah, your code works great and i get it now where i got lost with my code! Thanks once again!
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