09-22-2007
YEs, their might be multiple occurences of "the" in a file.And I want the starting postion of all.But the word("the") will occur only once in a line.
For example:
asdshdjsh the--11
sdahsdhaskj the --13
aksjdhashahskshjjsdfjd the--24
Thank you!!
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NAME
strgsub - substitute all occurences of pattern with another string
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#include <publib.h>
int strgsub(char *str, const char *pat, const char *sub, size_t max);
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strgsub finds all occurences of the pattern pat in the string str (using a method similar to strstr(3) to find the occurrences, i.e., no
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