How to find a particular string occurance position in a file?

[metal_butterfly]

I have a program which will write informations like gid,gname,resname,restype,etc... in a file.I wrote a function to get the starting and ending position of a particular group.Stating of a particular group (say group 12)is denoted in a file by #gid12 and the end of the group is denoted by @gid12.I don't know wat mistake i have done. The code works correctly only for the 1st group in the file. when i try to get other groups information i am getting wrong output.Plz tel me wat is the bug in my program.And is there any other way to find the starting and ending position of a particular group from my file.

OUTPUT FILE WILL LOOK AS FOLLOWS:

IP_Address:12.12.12.12
#gid1:sdf
Res-info$:;xyz;qww;qasddfasd;2:
Res-info$:;hjuy;asdfv;dfhvhvf;3:
Res-info$:;asdfg;eretg;wedsfh;7:
@gid1
IP_Address:123.12.132.12
#gid2:dfc
Res-info$:;hjuy;asdfv;dfhvhvf;3:
Res-info$:;asdfg;eretg;wedsfh;7:
@gid2
IP_Address:121.121.112.12
#gid12:xsdf
Res-info$:;xyz;qww;qasddfasd;2:
Res-info$:;asdfg;eretg;wedsfh;7:
@gid12

I have given the code below.Is there any other way to get the starting and ending position of a particular group from my file?? kindly help me on this

#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<string.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#define MAX 10
#define LINESIZE 256

struct resource
{
char res_type[12];
char res_name[25];
char res_loc[30];
int res_pri;
}res[MAX];
int store(char *ip_add,int g_id,char *g_name,struct resource res[],int n);

int FindStr(FILE *f, char *str);

main()
{
int g_id,i=0,choice,nor,j,status,gi=0,st=0,en=0;
char *g_name,*ip_add;
FILE *fp;



g_name=(char *)malloc(sizeof(char) * (MAX+1));
ip_add=(char *)malloc(sizeof(char) * (16));
printf("\nEnter the Following Data...\n");
printf("\nEnter Node IP Address:");
scanf("%s",ip_add);
printf("Enter g_id:");
scanf("%d",&g_id);
printf("Enter g_name:");
scanf("%s",g_name);
printf("Enter the resources...\n");

do
{
printf("Enter %d res_type:",i+1);
scanf("%s",res[i].res_type);

printf("Enter %d res_name:",i+1);
scanf("%s",res[i].res_name);

printf("Enter %d res_location:",i+1);
scanf("%s",res[i].res_loc);

printf("Enter %d res_priority:",i+1);
scanf("%d",&res[i].res_pri);


printf("\nDo u want to add another resource?\n 1.Yes\n2.N0\n:");
scanf("%d",&choice);

i++;
}while(choice==1);
nor=i-1;
j=0;


status=store(ip_add,g_id,g_name,res,nor);
if(status==0)
printf("\nfile updated successfully...\n");
else
printf("\nUpdate failed...\n");

 const char sbase[] = "#gid";
 const char ebase[] = "@gid";
 char start [10],end[10];
 //read the group id to be fetched
 printf("Enter the Group id to be fetched:");
 scanf("%d",&gi) ;
 sprintf(start, "%s%d", sbase, gi);
 printf("start = \"%s\"\n", start);
 sprintf(end, "%s%d", ebase, gi);
 printf("end = \"%s\"\n", end);
 fp=fopen("config.ini","r");

 st=FindStr(fp, start);
 en=FindStr(fp, end);
 printf("\nStart position:%d",st);
 printf("\nEnd position:%d",en);




}


struct group
{
char ip_add[25];
int g_id;
char g_name[25];
struct resource res[];
}g;

int store(char *ip_add,int g_id,char *g_name,struct resource res[],int n)
{
FILE *fp;
int i=0,j=0;
//ip_add=(char *)malloc(sizeof(char) * (MAX+1));
fp=fopen("config.ini","a");
if (fp==NULL)
{
printf("cannot open file");
return 1;
}
else
{
strcpy(g.ip_add,ip_add);
g.g_id=g_id;
strcpy(g.g_name,g_name);

while(i<=n)
{
//g.res[i].res_type=res[i].res_type;
strcpy(g.res[i].res_type,res[i].res_type);
strcpy(g.res[i].res_name,res[i].res_name);
strcpy(g.res[i].res_loc,res[i].res_loc);
g.res[i].res_pri=res[i].res_pri;
i++;
}



fprintf(fp,"\nIP_Address:%s",g.ip_add);
fprintf(fp,"\n#gid%d:",g.g_id);
fprintf(fp,"%s",g.g_name);

while(j<=n)
{
fprintf(fp,"\nRes-info$:;");
fprintf(fp,"%s;",g.res[j].res_type);
fprintf(fp,"%s;",g.res[j].res_name);
fprintf(fp,"%s;",g.res[j].res_loc);
fprintf(fp,"%d:",g.res[j].res_pri);
j++;
}
fprintf(fp,"\n@gid%d",g.g_id);
fclose(fp);
return 0;
}


}


int FindStr(FILE *f, char *str)
{
 int s_pos; //string position in the text
 int c_pos; //char position in the text
 char *string;
 char ccnt; //char count
 
 s_pos = -1;
 c_pos = 0;
 string = malloc(strlen(str));
 while (!feof(f))
  {
   if (c_pos == 0)
    for (ccnt = 1; ccnt <= strlen(str); ccnt++)
     if (!feof(f))
      string[ccnt - 1] = getc(f);

   if (c_pos != 0)
    if (!feof(f))
     {
      for (ccnt = 0; ccnt <= strlen(str) - 2; ccnt++)
       string[ccnt] = string[ccnt + 1]; 
      string[strlen(str) - 1] = getc(f);
     }  
   if (strcmp(string, str) == 0)
    {
     s_pos = c_pos;
     break;
    }   
   c_pos++;
  }
 return(s_pos);
}

[jephthah]

first off, theresabsolutely no reason to use MALLOC() here, all youre doing is adding more confusion.

secondly, if you do use MALLOC(), then you need a corresponding FREE() . the fact that youre not using either FREE() or REALLOC() tells me that you dont know what you're doing, and should stay the heck away from dynamic memory allocation until you learn the basics.

now to answer your question:

since you're trying to find the occurance of a string, you should use the standard string library function STRSTR(), since that's precisely what it's designed to do.

you could also look into STRTOK() if you want a more elegant solution, although it might be harder to understand how to use properly.

[ArkM]

May be it helps:

#define GEND 1
#define NOID 0
/** Returns group id > 0 or 0 if it's not #gid */
int getGroupId(const char* line)
{
    return line
        && line[0] == '#' && line[1] == 'g'
        && line[2] == 'i' && line[3] == 'd'
        &&isdigit(line[4])
        ? atoi(line+4)
        : NOID;
}
/** Returns 0 if it's not a @gid line;
 *  if gid > 0 then returns 1 only for this group.
 */
int isGroupEnd(const char* line, int gid)
{
    if (line
        && line[0] == '@' && line[1] == 'g'
        && line[2] == 'i' && line[3] == 'd'
        && isdigit(line[4])
       )
       return gid > 0
            ? atoi(line+4) == gid
            : GEND;
    else return 0;
}

[metal_butterfly]

:icon_razz: Thanx everyone....
My code is working now.