My program needs to search for a word in a text file, and if it finds that word, to print out/display the entire line. Example:
employee name date joined position project annual salary tom jones 1/13/2011 accountant pricing 55000 Susan lee 2/5/2007 Manager policy 70000
User enters a search word:
accountant
Program searches text for accountant. When it finds it, it returns the following:
employee name date joined position project annual salary tom jones 1/13/2011 accountant pricing 55000
This is the code I came up with but it doesn't work.
void KeyWord(ifstream &FileSearch)
{
     string letters;
     int position =-1;
     string line;
     ifstream readSearch;
     cout<<"enter search word ";
     cin>>letters;
     "\n";
     FileSearch.open("employee");
     if(FileSearch.is_open())
     { 
         while(getline(FileSearch, line))
         {
             FileSearch>>line;
             cout<<line<<endl;
             position=line.find(letters,position+1);
             if(position==string::npos);
             if(FileSearch.eof())
                 break;
             cout<<line<<endl;
         }
     }
     cout<<"Cant find"<<letters<<endl;
 }
Easy answer:
void Keyword(ifstream & stream, string token) {
    string line;
    while (getline(stream, line)) {
        if (line.find(token) != string::npos) {
            cout << line << endl;
        }
    }
    cout << token << " not found" << endl;
}
In general, avoid mixing << and getline together when reading from a stream as it causes strange issues with line endings.
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