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[n mishra]

Hi all,
I am trying to write a program in c to be able to search a file 
for any pattern which will be given by the user at 
runtime.Basically a search tool.
Could someone suggest a good way of doing this.I've heard of lex 
and yacc and also awk.Which one is better or is there any other 
option.
Or is there any way i can use something like grep through a 'c' 
program.
Thanks
mishra

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Re: Search tool

[Robin Doer]

> I am trying to write a program in c to be able to search a file
> for any pattern which will be given by the user at
> runtime.Basically a search tool.
> Could someone suggest a good way of doing this.I've heard of lex
> and yacc and also awk.Which one is better or is there any other
> option.

Indeed. 
Some days ago there was a discussion in the ML "File name with spaces" - go 
through a filesystem and make something. You can use use this as input.

> Or is there any way i can use something like grep through a 'c'
> program.

Check the manpages of opendir, readdir... and regex

Good look,
Robin
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