Program to search text in a file

Algorithm

Let's first see what should be the step-by-step procedure to compare two integers−

START
      
   Step 1 → Take two integer variables, say A & B
          
   Step 2 → Assign values to variables

   Step 3 → Compare variables if A is greater than B
   
   Step 4 → If true print A is greater than B
   
   Step 5 → If false print A is not greater than B

STOP

Flow Diagram

We can draw a flow diagram for this program as given below −

Pseudocode

Let's now see the pseudocode of this algorithm −

procedure compare(A, B)

   IF A is greater than B
      DISPLAY "A is greater than B"
   ELSE
      DISPLAY "A is not greater than B"
   END IF
      
end procedure

Implementation

Assuming we have file with name file_search.txt with this content −

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Now, we shall see the actual implementation of the program −

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
 
int main()
{
   FILE *fp;
   char word[50];
   char ch;
   char *filename = "somefile.txt";
   char *search = "to";
   int flag = 0;

   /*  open for writing */
   fp = fopen(filename, "r");
   
   do 
   {
      ch = fscanf(fp, "%s", word); 
      if(strcmp(word, search) == 0)
         flag = 1;     
   } while (ch != EOF); 

    if(flag)  
        printf("'%s' found in %s\n", search, filename);
    else
        printf("'%s' does not found in %s\n", search, filename);
        
   fclose(fp);
   return 0;
}

Output

Output of this program should be −

'to' appears 2 times in somefile.txt

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