Re: Searching a String, and counting occurrences of an Integer within the String

From:
mzdude <jsanga@cox.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:15:40 CST
Message-ID:
<0dd1bb5a-18e8-4fd5-8dc5-37f7eaf2a1f7@j38g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>
On Mar 9, 7:15 am, kingbarsa <barry.kingw...@gmail.com> wrote:

   while (start != std::string::npos)
   {
      start = stop;
      stop = str.find( ' ',start );
   ....


This loop does not seem to advance, in that the first value for stop
(in the case of my test string) is 3, which is the first location of a
space.

The next iteration (as i understand it) the find should start looking
from "start" onwards thereby find the next occurance of a space,
however for all iterations on, both start and stop have the value 3,
and the loop continues eternally.

I then tried
start = stop + 1;

which works in that the find seems to find the next space rather than
refind the same space.

However it becomes a problem when it gets to the end, in that it seems
that when stop = std::string::npos and start = stop + 1, then start
resorts back to zero, instead of also being = npos.
And so it starts reading from the beginning of the string all over.

Any advice, most appreciated


Rather than worry about individual spaces, let the string operator >> do
the heavy lifting for you.

size_t parse2(char const *buf)
{
    bool isFldAng = strstr(buf,"FLD ANG") != NULL;
    std::istringstream instring(buf);
    std::string token;
    std::vector<int> num;

    // by default the following line will skip white space
    // and token will be complete.
    while( instring >> token)
    {
       bool digit = isdigit(token[0]) != 0;
       if( digit)
          num.push_back(atoi(token.c_str()));
    }

    return num.size(); // counted number of ints
}

int main()
{

    char const buff[] = "DWT 5 10 15 20 25 30 40 50 60 70
80 90 FLD ANG\n";
    parse2(buff);
}

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