Searching multiple files for text or phrases?

[sandeepkavade]

Hi all,
i want to search for files containing particular phrase, just like windows "A word or phrase in file:" utility in search option. Does anybody knows any windows API or programming logic for this issue?

[sicarie]

Depends which language you are using - will this be implemented in C or C++?

[Studlyami]

If your not concerned about memory you can open the file and copy it to a CString object then you can use the CString::find() to find the word or phrase. This can take up a lot of memory depending on the file size, but its really easy to program and for what i have noticed it doesn't take a lot of time on the find function, but i haven't used it on larger files (max was probably 30 or so pages of text).

[sandeepkavade]

Depends which language you are using - will this be implemented in C or C++?

it has to be implimented in C++. They are xml files and i have to search for value of particular node. Reading the file and using MSXML is better option or taking it in CString and calling .find() will be a better option.

[sicarie]

Yeah, I'd use an XML parser, it sounds like you already know of one (though it's got the "M$" on the front of it, I wouldn't really trust it ;). Feel free to post again during your implementation if you get stuck!