And here is how to report the position of the first character off the found substring:
Replace this line in the above code:
printf("%s",substring,"\n");
with:
printf("substring %s was found at position %d \n", substring,((int) (substring - mainstring)));
Using C - No built in functions
string_contains() does all the heavy lifting and returns 1 based index. Rest are driver and helper codes.
Assign a pointer to the main string and the substring, increment substring pointer when matching, stop looping when substring pointer is equal to substring length.
read_line() - A little bonus code for reading the user input without predefining the size of input user should provide.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int string_len(char * string){
int len = 0;
while(*string!='\0'){
len++;
string++;
}
return len;
}
int string_contains(char *string, char *substring){
int start_index = 0;
int string_index=0, substring_index=0;
int substring_len =string_len(substring);
int s_len = string_len(string);
while(substring_index<substring_len && string_index<s_len){
if(*(string+string_index)==*(substring+substring_index)){
substring_index++;
}
string_index++;
if(substring_index==substring_len){
return string_index-substring_len+1;
}
}
return 0;
}
#define INPUT_BUFFER 64
char *read_line(){
int buffer_len = INPUT_BUFFER;
char *input = malloc(buffer_len*sizeof(char));
int c, count=0;
while(1){
c = getchar();
if(c==EOF||c=='\n'){
input[count]='\0';
return input;
}else{
input[count]=c;
count++;
}
if(count==buffer_len){
buffer_len+=INPUT_BUFFER;
input = realloc(input, buffer_len*sizeof(char));
}
}
}
int main(void) {
while(1){
printf("\nEnter the string: ");
char *string = read_line();
printf("Enter the sub-string: ");
char *substring = read_line();
int position = string_contains(string,substring);
if(position){
printf("Found at position: %d\n", position);
}else{
printf("Not Found\n");
}
}
return 0;
}
Use strstr for this.
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstring/strstr/
So, you'd write it like..
char *sent = "this is my sample example";
char *word = "sample";
char *pch = strstr(sent, word);
if(pch)
{
...
}
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
int findSubstr(char *inpText, char *pattern);
int main()
{
printf("Hello, World!\n");
char *Text = "This is my sample program";
char *pattern = "sample";
int pos = findSubstr(Text, pattern);
if (pos > -1) {
printf("Found the substring at position %d \n", pos);
}
else
printf("No match found \n");
return 0;
}
int findSubstr(char *inpText, char *pattern) {
int inplen = strlen(inpText);
while (inpText != NULL) {
char *remTxt = inpText;
char *remPat = pattern;
if (strlen(remTxt) < strlen(remPat)) {
/* printf ("length issue remTxt %s \nremPath %s \n", remTxt, remPat); */
return -1;
}
while (*remTxt++ == *remPat++) {
printf("remTxt %s \nremPath %s \n", remTxt, remPat);
if (*remPat == '\0') {
printf ("match found \n");
return inplen - strlen(inpText+1);
}
if (remTxt == NULL) {
return -1;
}
}
remPat = pattern;
inpText++;
}
}
This code implements the logic of how search works (one of the ways) without using any ready-made function:
public int findSubString(char[] original, char[] searchString)
{
int returnCode = 0; //0-not found, -1 -error in imput, 1-found
int counter = 0;
int ctr = 0;
if (original.Length < 1 || (original.Length)<searchString.Length || searchString.Length<1)
{
returnCode = -1;
}
while (ctr <= (original.Length - searchString.Length) && searchString.Length > 0)
{
if ((original[ctr]) == searchString[0])
{
counter = 0;
for (int count = ctr; count < (ctr + searchString.Length); count++)
{
if (original[count] == searchString[counter])
{
counter++;
}
else
{
counter = 0;
break;
}
}
if (counter == (searchString.Length))
{
returnCode = 1;
}
}
ctr++;
}
return returnCode;
}
My code to find out if substring is exist in string or not
// input ( first line -->> string , 2nd lin ->>> no. of queries for substring
following n lines -->> string to check if substring or not..
#include <stdio.h>
int len,len1;
int isSubstring(char *s, char *sub,int i,int j)
{
int ans =0;
for(;i<len,j<len1;i++,j++)
{
if(s[i] != sub[j])
{
ans =1;
break;
}
}
if(j == len1 && ans ==0)
{
return 1;
}
else if(ans==1)
return 0;
return 0;
}
int main(){
char s[100001];
char sub[100001];
scanf("%s", &s);// Reading input from STDIN
int no;
scanf("%d",&no);
int i ,j;
i=0;
j=0;
int ans =0;
len = strlen(s);
while(no--)
{
i=0;
j=0;
ans=0;
scanf("%s",&sub);
len1=strlen(sub);
int value;
for(i=0;i<len;i++)
{
if(s[i]==sub[j])
{
value = isSubstring(s,sub,i,j);
if(value)
{
printf("Yes\n");
ans = 1;
break;
}
}
}
if(ans==0)
printf("No\n");
}
}
The same will be achived with this simpler code: Why use these:
int main(void)
{
char mainstring[]="The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog";
char substring[20];
int i=0;
puts("enter the sub stirng to find");
fgets(substring, sizeof(substring), stdin);
substring[strlen(substring)-1]='\0';
if (strstr(mainstring,substring))
{
printf("substring is present\t");
}
printf("and the sub string is:::");
printf("%s",substring,"\n");
return 0;
}
But the tricky part would be to report at which position in original string the substring starts...
I believe that I have the simplest answer. You don't need the string.h library in this program, nor the stdbool.h library. Simply using pointers and pointer arithmetic will help you become a better C programmer.
Simply return 0 for False (no substring found), or 1 for True (yes, a substring "sub" is found within the overall string "str"):
#include <stdlib.h>
int is_substr(char *str, char *sub)
{
int num_matches = 0;
int sub_size = 0;
// If there are as many matches as there are characters in sub, then a substring exists.
while (*sub != '\0') {
sub_size++;
sub++;
}
sub = sub - sub_size; // Reset pointer to original place.
while (*str != '\0') {
while (*sub == *str && *sub != '\0') {
num_matches++;
sub++;
str++;
}
if (num_matches == sub_size) {
return 1;
}
num_matches = 0; // Reset counter to 0 whenever a difference is found.
str++;
}
return 0;
}
Try to use pointers...
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
int main()
{
char str[] = "String1 subString1 Strinstrnd subStr ing1subString";
char sub[] = "subString";
char *p1, *p2, *p3;
int i=0,j=0,flag=0;
p1 = str;
p2 = sub;
for(i = 0; i<strlen(str); i++)
{
if(*p1 == *p2)
{
p3 = p1;
for(j = 0;j<strlen(sub);j++)
{
if(*p3 == *p2)
{
p3++;p2++;
}
else
break;
}
p2 = sub;
if(j == strlen(sub))
{
flag = 1;
printf("\nSubstring found at index : %d\n",i);
}
}
p1++;
}
if(flag==0)
{
printf("Substring NOT found");
}
return (0);
}
My own humble (case sensitive) solution:
uint8_t strContains(char* string, char* toFind)
{
uint8_t slen = strlen(string);
uint8_t tFlen = strlen(toFind);
uint8_t found = 0;
if( slen >= tFlen )
{
for(uint8_t s=0, t=0; s<slen; s++)
{
do{
if( string[s] == toFind[t] )
{
if( ++found == tFlen ) return 1;
s++;
t++;
}
else { s -= found; found=0; t=0; }
}while(found);
}
return 0;
}
else return -1;
}
Results
strContains("this is my sample example", "th") // 1
strContains("this is my sample example", "sample") // 1
strContains("this is my sample example", "xam") // 1
strContains("this is my sample example", "ple") // 1
strContains("this is my sample example", "ssample") // 0
strContains("this is my sample example", "samplee") // 0
strContains("this is my sample example", "") // 0
strContains("str", "longer sentence") // -1
strContains("ssssssample", "sample") // 1
strContains("sample", "sample") // 1
Tested on ATmega328P (avr8-gnu-toolchain-3.5.4.1709) ;)
You can try this one for both finding the presence of the substring and to extract and print it:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
int main(void)
{
char mainstring[]="The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog";
char substring[20], *ret;
int i=0;
puts("enter the sub string to find");
fgets(substring, sizeof(substring), stdin);
substring[strlen(substring)-1]='\0';
ret=strstr(mainstring,substring);
if(strcmp((ret=strstr(mainstring,substring)),substring))
{
printf("substring is present\t");
}
printf("and the sub string is:::");
for(i=0;i<strlen(substring);i++)
{
printf("%c",*(ret+i));
}
puts("\n");
return 0;
}
Source: Stackoverflow.com