Replace a particular word with another one in a file [closed] - c++

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How can I find a particular word in text file and replace that word with another one and write back the test to file(If text is paragraph separated).I can do replace word; if its not paragraph separated .using string.find and string replace.

As far as I understand you are comfortable with replacing words in a single paragraph and that you are doubtful regarding text with multiple paragraphs.
Please look into a function called "getline()" function.
This function reads entire your text until it encounters a "\n" element (Next line)
So you can use this getline function to get one whole paragraph into a string.
Using this getline function in a while loop allows you to get all the paragraphs from the text file
An example code has been provided below
#include<iostream>
#include<string>
#include<fstream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
string a,b;
a="he";
b="she";
fstream text("text.txt");
string line;
while (!text.eof( ))
{
getline(text,line);
cout<<line<<endl;
//This string "line" is basically a string containing your first paragraph
//ADD your find and replace code here for the string "line".
//The second time the while loop executes the string "line" will contain the second paragraph and so on..
}
}
}

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I have a string (URL) which I know part of, but not all of it. Some of the string I want to remove, but the string can vary in length, so I can't use the erase() function from <string>.
An example URL I may work with:
https://github.com/username/repo-name
After parsing, I would like to be left with just repo-name
I know I can do this easily in shell with the sed command:
echo "https://github.com/username/repo-name" | sed 's/.*\///'
Ideally, I would like something I could turn into a function, so I could do something like:
string substring = sed("s/.*\///",var);
Please keep in mind that I do not know the full string to be removed. In the case of the URL I showed, I want everything before, and including the final '/', but, the username is subject to change. so from what I understand I can't use things such as erase() or rfind().
EDIT
All URLs I am parsing are GitHub URLs, so they will all be similar to this, another part of the program this will go in will ensure they all follow this same syntax.
Use rfind to get the location of the last slash then substr to return the right side of the string. Since substr's second argument defaults to "the end of the string" you only need to provide the beginning position:
#include <string>
std::string GetURLFilePath(const std::string& url) {
auto last_slash_location = url.rfind('/');
if(last_slash_location == std::string::npos || last_slash_location + 1 >= url.size()) {
return "";
}
return url.substr(last_slash_location + 1);
}
You didn't really say if you are expecting parameters (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnWhqhNdYyk) so this will obviously not be exactly what you want if those exist in the string, but it'll get you to the right track.

I cannot read spaces and enters in c++ using devc++ [closed]

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Hi I am new here and I have little problem I guess. I want my program to change one character in whole text in text file. For example I want to change all A to G. But when I read it ,it does not even read spaces and enters. Also I want to write eddited text in new textfile. Thanks for help.
At the beginning you should load whole file.
std::ifstream is("file.txt");
is >> std::noskipws;
std::istream_iterator<char> start(is), end;
std::vector<char> buffer(start, end);
is >> std::noskipws prevents stream from skipping white characters like space or enter. Then replace characters using std::replace(buffer.begin(), buffer.end(), 'A', 'G');.
Now simply save file:
std::ofstream out("file.txt", std::ofstream::binary);
std::copy(buffer.begin(), buffer.end(), std::ostreambuf_iterator<char>(out));
You may want to read something about those:
std::ostreambuf_iterator, std::istream_iterator, std::noskipws, std::replace.

Can not open a text file with the " fstream " [closed]

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My current difficulties will open "My File.txt" using fstream.
in "My File.txt" there is a long sentence. so I use the AnsiString to accommodate the text that is inside
void __fastcall TFormManager::Button1Click(TObject *Sender) {
AnsiString FileName, tmpText;
FileName = "\conf\db\My Text.txt";
if (FileExists(FileName)) {
ifstream data(FileName);
data >> tmpText;
}
}
i use C++ Builder XE6. Thx
Double the backslashes:
FileName = "\\conf\\db\\My Text.txt";
Sometimes you need to put a symbol in a string literal that has no equivalent in the keyboard or that can not be accepted directly in the source code. For example, if you need to add a line break in a string, many languages require you to use an equivalent escape sequence.
In C/C++, escape sequences are started by a single \. So for example:
\n = Enter
\t = Tab
If you want to use a single \ in your string literal, you must escape it as \\.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_sequences_in_C
In many systems, you can use / to separate your path.

C++ -- Storing from .txt file to array? [closed]

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2 Questions:
The first question is, I need to input the name of the text file when the program runs so let's say it's called "Banana.txt" , I type it in and I'm missing the last word of the file. This is basically all I used to output from the txt file.
while(File.good()){
cout <<word << " "; //put spaces in between the words
File >> word; }
Not sure how to get the last word.
The second question is how do I store the information from the .txt file into an array that I can use later?
Does it have to be multidimensional? The maximum words in the file are 100..
Eventually I'm going to need to ignore any words < 4 characters.
I actually can't recall if I should use char or string. But iirc char is each individual character whereas string is a collection of characters? Arg. Scratch that, Looking it up in a bit..
Not allowed to use hash_, vectors, maps, stack, or lists so I'm not sure how to go about this problem
Thanks in advance for the help. I tried looking through other threads but I'm not sure if those are the ones I'm looking for... Sorry for the questions ..
You're outputting before you've input.
Try swapping your two lines in the while loop, something like:
while(File.good())
{
File >> word;
cout << word << " "; //put spaces in between the words
}
to put the data into a container, assuming word is of type string, try:
vector<string> v;
and at the bottom of your loop:
v.push_back(word);
For the first one, you need to first read into the word then output it.
The "intuitive" loop of while(File.good()) though is flawed because if you are at end of file but haven't read it yet, the stream will appear good until you try reading the next word.
As a result the read will fail. You could do
while( File.good() )
{
if( File >> word )
{
// process this word
}
}
but simpler is
while( File >> word )
{
// process the word
}
Another thing you can use is istream_iterator and copy, and then you can actually copy them into your sequence. However you are not allowed to use the standard C++ library.

C++ \n in a string (Not working) [closed]

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I'm learning C++. Here's my problem.
http://prntscr.com/2m5flm
I created a function who can read Prop files like them (you can set the file beginning and ending tags with a function, searching a specified tag with a function who will return a string (containing the results).
Here's the main.cpp
#include <iostream>
#include "m_PFile_r.h"
using namespace std;
int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
m_PFile_r k;
k.open("prop.arg");
k.imNotaFag(true);
k.setOpenArg("$FILE_BEGIN$");
k.setCloseArg("$FILE_END$");
string lS;
lS=k.getArg("launchSentence");
cout << lS << endl;
string menu;
menu=k.getArg("progMenu");
cout << menu;
return 0;
}
MY QUESTION IS : Why doesn't it print the \n as a line return ?
Thanks :)
The file has new line characters in it, they are defining the end of the lines. When you enter the newline character in the file, it is being stored in that file not as a newline character, but the two individual characters "\" and "n". So when you then read in the file, those characters are read in just like the others.
You are over complicating this problem. If you would like to print out various phrases to the user, just include those phrases as string variables in your program.
String launchSentence = "This is the launch sentence.";
String progMenu = "Hit 1 For Add Hit 2 for Subtract";
These could then be printed with the normal COUT << progMenu method.
If your purpose with the text file is to keep all of the possible text strings isolated in one easy location, why not create a TextCommandPrompts.h, fill it with the String (character in C++) variables and include that in your main?
Edit - Because I can't comment yet and I want to respond to one - I thought that whatever text editor that was letting him write line by line would be messing this up. As in, its already doing the "\n" magic, and when he writes in the characters '\' and 'n' something mundane happened, and they stayed as regular characters.