Searching for links and emails in a file containing source code

[gakuykk]

I am writing a program in c++ running on linux that is supposed to search for e-mails through a file of source code. The source code is already in a file.
I believe that am supposed to identify the phrase "href" and "mailto" to be able to write the necessary code to read through the whole whole file and just output the emails in another file.
How do I go about it.

[sicarie]

Decide where the emails are going to be kept.
Connect to it
Get the list of emails
Open the first
Parse for the phrase you decided to look for

[RedSon]

I am writing a program in c++ running on linux that is supposed to search for e-mails through a file of source code. The source code is already in a file.
I believe that am supposed to identify the phrase "href" and "mailto" to be able to write the necessary code to read through the whole whole file and just output the emails in another file.
How do I go about it.

are you sure that you are not supposed to identify the character expression [e-mail]?

[gakuykk]

Decide where the emails are going to be kept.
Connect to it
Get the list of emails
Open the first
Parse for the phrase you decided to look for

Cold you elaborate more on the "get the list of emails" in code.

[sicarie]

Cold you elaborate more on the "get the list of emails" in code.

No. I'm not here to do your work, so I'm answering you with as much effort as it took you to post.

However, if you are willing to put effort into it - try it yourself and then post what you tried and what errors you are getting, then I (and all the Experts/Mods here) will be much more willing to help.

[gakuykk]

are you sure that you are not supposed to identify the character expression [e-mail]?

Yes, I am supposed to identify that expression and (am assuming) use the
member function "str.find(str1,pos)" to identify the "@" symbol.
Since the "pos" is supposed to start the search at the beginning of the file, what happens when it finds the first "@" and identify the "[e-mail]" for multiple email addresses?(Isn't the "find" function supposed to pick out the emails
and disregard everything else by identifying the beginning and end of the email?)

This is how I started that particular part
ofstream out("emails.txt");
string emails;
char search = "@";
int offset;
ifstream in("initial.txt");//file containing source code
while(!eof)
{
str.find(search, 0);//this is where am not sure about
out << search << endl;
}