How to find a string in another string?

[radostin]

I'm sure you've seen this a million times but, I'm having some trouble with my code.

 
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
 
 
main (void){
 
char* longString = " This is where a string with some shit goes; where else would it go?";
char* shortString = " where";
char* ptr;
int i = 0;
 
 
 
ptr = strstr(longString, shortString);
 
printf("The word is: %c", ptr);
 
ptr = longString;
 
while(ptr!=0){
      ptr = strstr(ptr,shortString)
      i++;}
 
printf("The word appears %d times.", &i);
 
 
 

[Banfa]

Try using %s on line 18, other than that tell us what the code actually does and what you expect it to do.

[Oralloy]

If you're doing pattern matching, you'll have to break out the regex library.

As Banfa observes - we need to know what you're trying to achieve in order to help you.

[radostin]

Bassically I am asking if shotString is in longString and then I want to know how many times. The part I am having difficulty with is this.

 ptr = longString;
 
 while(ptr!=0){
       ptr = strstr(ptr,shortString)
       i++;} 

I am not a hundered percent on how to count how many instances shortString is after i've found out that it is present in longString.

[Banfa]

Your problem there is that you increment i even when ptr is 0 which it will be on the final iteration of the loop so i ends having a value that is 1 too large.