String Search and format in C - c

Question

Just a quick one: in C I have a buffer full of data like below:
char buffer[255]="CODE=12345-MODE-12453-CODE1-12355"
My question is how to search through this. For example for the CODE=12345, section bear in mind that the numbers change, so I would like to search like this CODE=***** using wildcard or preset amount of spaces after the CODE= part.
This method wont compile last one left to try
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <windows.h>
int main ()
{
char buf[255]="CODE=12345-MODE-12453-CODE1-12355";
#define TRIMSPACES(p) while(*p != '\0' && isspace((unsigned char)*p) != 0) ++p
#define NSTRIP(p, n) p += n
#define STRIP(p) ++p
char* getcode(const char *input)
{
char *p = (char*) input, *buf, *pbuf;
if((buf = malloc(256)) == NULL)
return NULL;
pbuf = buf;
while(*p != '\0') {
if(strncmp(p, "CODE", 3) == 0) {
NSTRIP(p, 4); //remove 'code'
TRIMSPACES(p);//trim white-space after 'code'
if(*p != '=')
return NULL;
STRIP(p); // remove '='
TRIMSPACES(p); //trim white-spaces after '='
/* copy the value until found a '-'
note: you must be control the size of it,
for avoid overflow. we allocated size, that's 256
or do subsequent calls to realloc()
*/
while(*p != '\0' && *p != '-')
*pbuf ++ = *p++;
// break;
}
p ++;
}
//put 0-terminator.
*pbuf ++ = '\0';
return buf;
}
//
}

Answer 1

You could use the sscanf() function:
int number;
sscanf(buffer, "CODE = %i", &number);
for that to work well your buffer has to be null terminated.

Answer 2

Another way to do it instead of sscanf():
char *input, *code;
input = strstr(buf, "CODE");
if(input == NULL) {
printf("Not found CODE=\n");
return -1;
}
code = strtok(strdup(input), "=");
if(code != NULL) {
code = strtok(NULL, "-");
printf("%s\n", code); // code = atoi(code);
} else {
//not found '='
}
Or more robust way.. a bit more complex:
#define TRIMSPACES(p) while(*p != '\0' && isspace((unsigned char)*p) != 0) ++p
#define NSTRIP(p, n) p += n
#define STRIP(p) ++p
char* getcode(const char *input, size_t limit)
{
char *p = (char*) input, *buf, *pbuf;
size_t i = 0;
while(*p != '\0') {
if(strncmp(p, "CODE", 3) == 0) {
NSTRIP(p, 4); //remove 'code'
TRIMSPACES(p);//trim all white-spaces after 'code'
/* check we have a '=' after CODE (without spaces).
if there is not, returns NULL
*/
if(*p != '=')
return NULL;
/* ok. We have.. now we don't need of it
just remove it from we output string.
*/
STRIP(p);
/* remove again all white-spaces after '=' */
TRIMSPACES(p);
/* the rest of string is not valid,
because are white-spaces values.
*/
if(*p == '\0')
return NULL;
/* allocate space for store the value
between code= and -.
this limit is set into second parameter.
*/
if((buf = malloc(limit)) == NULL)
return NULL;
/* copy the value until found a '-'
note: you must be control the size of it,
for don't overflow. we allocated 256 bytes.
if the string is greater it, do implementation with
subjecents call to realloc()
*/
pbuf = buf;
while(*p != '\0' && *p != '-' && i < limit) {
*pbuf ++ = *p++;
i ++;
}
*pbuf ++ = '\0';
return buf;
}
p ++;
}
return NULL;
}
And then:
char buf[255] = "foo baa CODE = 12345-MODE-12453-CODE-12355";
char *code = getcode(buf,256);
if(code != NULL) {
printf("code = %s\n", code);
free(code);
} else {
printf("Not found code.\n");
}
output:
code = 12345
Check out this online.
if you want to don't differentiate case, you can use the strncasecmp() that's POSIX function.

Answer 3

Assuming the CODE= part always comes at the beginning of the string, it's pretty easy:
sscanf(buffer, "CODE = %d", &number);
...but you want buffer to be char[255], not unsigned long.
Edit: If the CODE= part isn't necessarily at the beginning of the string, you can use strstr to find CODE in the buffer, do your sscanf starting from that point, then look immediately following that:
int codes[256];
char *pos = buffer;
size_t current = 0;
while ((pos=strstr(pos, "CODE")) != NULL) {
if (sscanf(pos, "CODE = %d", codes+current))
++current;
pos += 4;
}
Edit2:
For example, you'd use this something like this:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <windows.h>
int main ()
{
// This is full of other junk as well
char buffer[255]="CODE=12345 MODE-12453 CODE=12355" ;
int i;
int codes[256];
char *pos = buffer;
size_t current = 0;
while ((pos=strstr(pos, "CODE")) != NULL) {
if (sscanf(pos, "CODE = %d", codes+current))
++current;
pos += 4;
}
for (i=0; i<current; i++)
printf("%d\n", codes[i]);
return 0;
}
For me, this produces the following output:
12345
12355
...correctly reading the two "CODE=xxx" sections, but skipings over the "MODE=yyy" section.

Answer 4

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
char *getcode(const char *str, const char *pattern){
//pattern: char is match, space is skip, * is collect
static const char *p=NULL;
char *retbuf, *pat;
int i, match, skip, patlen;
if(str != NULL) p=str;
if(p==NULL || *p=='\0') return NULL;
if(NULL==(retbuf=(char*)malloc((strlen(p)+1)*sizeof(char))))
return NULL;
pat = (char*)pattern;
patlen = strlen(pat);
i = match = skip = 0;
while(*p){
if(isspace(*p)){
++p;
++skip;
continue;
}
if(*pat){
if(*p == *pat){
++match;
++p;
++pat;
} else if(*pat == '*'){
++match;
retbuf[i++]=*p++;
++pat;
} else {
if(match){//reset
pat=(char*)pattern;
p -= match + skip -1;
i = match = skip = 0;
} else //next
++p;
}
} else {
break;
}
}
if(i){//has match
retbuf[i++]='\0';
retbuf=realloc(retbuf, i);
return retbuf;
} else {
free(retbuf);
return NULL;
}
}
int main (){
char *code;
code=getcode("CODE=12345-MODE-12453-CODE1-12355", "CODE=*****");
printf("\"%s\"\n",code);//"12345"
free(code);
code=getcode(" CODE = 12345-MODE-12453-CODE1-12355", "CODE=*****");
printf("\"%s\"\n",code);//"12345"
free(code);
code=getcode("CODE-12345-MODE-12453-CODE1-12355", "CODE=*****");
if(code==NULL)printf("not match\n");//not match
code=getcode("CODE=12345-MODE-12453-CODE=12355", "CODE=*****");
printf("\"%s\"\n",code);//"12345"
free(code);
code=getcode(NULL, "CODE=*****");
printf("\"%s\"\n",code);//"12355"
free(code);
code=getcode("CODE=12345-MODE-12453-CODE1-12355", "CODE=*****");
printf("\"%s\"\n",code);//"12345"
free(code);
code=getcode(NULL, "CODE1-*****");
printf("\"%s\"\n",code);//"12355"
free(code);
return 0;
}