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DarkBASIC Discussion / counting character

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Posted: 7th Jul 2013 18:56
does anyone know how to count words when using dbGetEntry. or is there any methods to count character in text when you're using Dark GDK?
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Posted: 1st Sep 2013 23:15
count on your fingers, if it is less then 10...

Toedeledoki
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2013 09:35
Note that this is the DarkBASIC forums, not the GDK, so you might have trouble there. Regardless, as a GDK user, I will offer some help.

However, the easiest method would be through regular expressions. Note that only c++ 2011 has the library for regular expressions.

Alternatively, you can scan through the string using a for loop looking for a space or a newline character, like so:



Note that this assumes you are using std::string. If you are using the native GDK method of strings, it will involve an array of characters (char[length]) and you will need to find the length in another way (I'm sure GDK has a method for that). I may also have the wrong kind of quotes, so if that doesn't compile, try using " instead of '

Hope this helps!

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Posted: 2nd Sep 2013 20:35
The only new threads we get on here now are wrong boards.



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Posted: 2nd Sep 2013 22:17
Quote: " The only new threads we get on here now are wrong boards. "


Sadly true. Probably because DBC is one of the only TGC products that doesn't have a free version (to my knowledge, at least)

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Posted: 4th Sep 2013 12:36 Edited at: 4th Sep 2013 12:41
Just jumping in here to provide my end of C++ knowledge. The standard library <algorithm> contains a count function accepting iterators.



If you're using C strings (const char*) like BN2 is saying, you can use std::count as well with a small modification:



OR you can create a temporary std::string object and use the first method:



Note that empty strings will still output a wordCount of 1, so it might be worth checking if characterCount is 0, and if so, set wordCount to 0.

TheComet

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