Using C++ To Search Directory

[neilio2j]

hi im currently using C++ for a project and was wondering if anyone could help me out with a problem i have encountered

basically i was wanting to search through a set number of files in a directory for certain tags or comments. after that i was hoping to search through all the files again that contained tags to find out if there was more than one tag in each file and display those files or tags in a list

thanks in advance for your help if you do so

[sicarie]

hi im currently using C++ for a project and was wondering if anyone could help me out with a problem i have encountered

basically i was wanting to search through a set number of files in a directory for certain tags or comments. after that i was hoping to search through all the files again that contained tags to find out if there was more than one tag in each file and display those files or tags in a list

thanks in advance for your help if you do so

What OS are you using?
How are the tags stored (as files? file attributes?)
What about comments?
What have you tried so far?

[neilio2j]

What OS are you using?
How are the tags stored (as files? file attributes?)
What about comments?
What have you tried so far?

The operating system i am using is WinXP Pro SP2

The tags are stored as comments within files. With the text "TODO" used as
our tag marker to show it is a tag. Once a tag has been found we wish to read the text after the "TODO" tag and put all the information after the "TODO" into a class.

So far we have tried to search through the the program itself for all information after the "TODO" tag and stored all the information into a string and printed all the text on the output screen.

thanks very much for your help

[sicarie]

The operating system i am using is WinXP Pro SP2

The tags are stored as comments within files. With the text "TODO" used as
our tag marker to show it is a tag. Once a tag has been found we wish to read the text after the "TODO" tag and put all the information after the "TODO" into a class.

So far we have tried to search through the the program itself for all information after the "TODO" tag and stored all the information into a string and printed all the text on the output screen.

thanks very much for your help

The 'TODO' starts the comment, but is there a definite end delimiter? As is, I believe you're going to need to use fstreams, getline, and strtok to find the 'TODO' tag.