[plug] C, bad syntax etc.

[shayne at guild.murdoch.edu.au]

Or failing that use python ;)

Erm. Not a c guru, but your general form is going to be;
(pseudocode)
For each line in file
{
      For each character in line
          {
             if character in [1..9]
                 {
                   Perform some sorta action
                 } 
          }
}

Now keep in mind that thats the super unoptimised version.
The each-character-in-line bit can be done via a searchstring (or 0-9 search 
strings if no regexp is available for the task. But that won't necessarily
help you for whole classes of problem.

What *exactly* is the prob your working on John?

Quoting Bret Busby <bret at busby.net>:

> On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, John Knight wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Cheers mate, don't worry, it's out of the loop. ;) Now I'm trying to
> figure 
> > out how to search through text for numbers only! *groan* heh. ;)
> > 
> > 
> 
> 1. using a switch statement for each case of 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, then
> 
> the break?
> 
> 2. using isnum ? (isalnum then isalpha)
> Could be done using #define to define macro isnum as 
> (if(isalnum(variable_name) && if(!(isalpha(variable_name)))
> assuming that you are searching for numbers, as opposed to digits, in 
> which case you have isdigit, and you could probably use
> while(isdigit(variablename)) to retrieve numbers
> ?
> 
> ? here is not the conditional operator :)
> 
> 
> -- 
> Bret Busby
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> West Australia
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> 
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