How can I check if a given FILE*
contains a string in C running on Linux (if it matters)?
The string must consist of the whole line it's on. For example, this:
jfjfkjj
string
jfjkfjk
would be true; but this:
jffjknf
fklm...string...lflj
jfjkfnj
wouldn't. I'm essentially looking for an internal alternative to system("grep -x file")
This reads a file line by line and checks if the line matches the string supplied in argument 1 (argv[1]
) after every read. If so, it sets the bool infile
(bools defined in <stdbool.h>
) to true.
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv[]) {
char *filepath = "/path/to/file";
bool infile = false;
char *line = NULL;
size_t len = 0;
ssize_t read;
FILE *fp = fopen(filepath, "r");
if (!fp) {
fprintf(stderr, "Failed to open %s\n", filepath);
return 1;
}
while ((read = getline(&line, &len, fp)) != -1) {
line[strcspn(line, "\n")] = 0;
if (!strcmp(line, argv[1])) {
infile = true;
break;
}
}
fclose(uuidfp);
if (line)
free(line);
return 0;
}