Okay so I am writing a c code where I have to type a word, find it in a file, an

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Okay so I am writing a c code where I have to type a word, find it in a file, and print the line and also count the amount of times the word appears. I do not know a way to count amount of times my "target" word appears while scanning "word", or each line. I need help writing something to count amount of times the word appears. This is what I have so far

while (fgets(word, MAX, inp) != NULL) {

if (strstr(word, target) != NULL) {

printf("Found %s on line %d: %s ", target, line, word);

}

line++;

}

}

printf("The string: "%s" was found a total of %d times in the file: %s ", target, count, file);

fclose(inp);

Explanation / Answer

Please find my code to count number of times a word occurs in file:

// count number of times 'key' appears in file 'in'
int countWord(char *in, char *key, int buf){
int count = 0;
FILE *f;
f = fopen(in,"r"); // opening file
char temp[buf]; // buffer to read line by line
while(fgets(temp,buf,f) != NULL){
char *p = temp;
while((p=(strstr(p,key)))!= NULL){ // breaking line uisng key
count++;
++p;
}
}
fclose(f);
return count;
}

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