Gnu has a regexp.  Try a web search for this sort of thing
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How do you do pattern matching in c?
I want to see if a word appears in a string.  Right now I have the folowing:

   if ((stream = popen(command, "rt")) == NULL) {
      printf("Error starting the command pipe .\n");
   }
   else {
      while(!feof(stream)) {  
         get line from stream
         if (there is pattern1 in  stream) {
            do this
         }
         else if (there is pattern 2 in stream) {
            do that
         }
         else {
            do somehting else
         }
      }
   }

Is this possible?  
The more i think about this the more i wish i was using perl :)

Thanks,
-Ali M.

: Gnu has a regexp.  Try a web search for this sort of thing
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Hi,
I did do a web search and came up with nothing... maybe I was
looking at the wrong places.
BTW, I am developeing on NT platform using MS VC++ compiler, so I can't use
GNU.

Thanks,
-Ali M.

You tried a web search with "regexp" and found nothing?

Look at my sig for a clue.  You should do better than that.

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|: Gnu has a regexp.  Try a web search for this sort of thing
||I did do a web search and came up with nothing... maybe I was
|looking at the wrong places.
|BTW, I am developeing on NT platform using MS VC++ compiler, so I can't use
|GNU.

It is simply not true that you cannot use GNU routines in MS VC++/NT
compiled
programs.  (Please move any GPL discussion outside of comp.lang.c, however).
The GNU sources are available from (among other places)
ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu.
For alternate sites (recommended) see www.fsf.org or
www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

.

There's a pointer to Henry Spencer's regular expression library in the
FAQ.  This is certainly a good place to start.

Cheers,
Richard
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