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- {
- > I need help on making a Search Procedure in TURBO PASCAL.
- > what I want it to do is to open the contents in a Text File
- > search For a given String. and diplay that Record or line With that
- > given String!!!
-
- Here is a Program that will search a Text File and display the lines
- of Text With the search String in it.
- }
-
- Program Search;
- Type
- BigString = String[132];
- Var
- FileName: String[14];
- FileVar: Text;
- LineNumber: Integer;
- OneLine, Temporary, SubString: BigString;
-
- { Make all Chars in S upper case}
- Procedure UpperCase(Var S: BigString);
- Var
- I: Integer;
- begin
- For I := 1 to Length(S) do
- S[I] := Upcase(S[I]);
- end;
-
- begin
- Write('Search what Text File? ');
- Readln(FileName);
- Assign(FileVar, FileName);
- Repeat
- Writeln;
- Reset(FileVar);
- Write('Search for? (Enter to quit) ');
- Readln(SubString);
- if Length(SubString) > 0 then
- begin
- UpperCase(SubString);
- LineNumber := 0;
- While not Eof(FileVar) do
- begin
- Readln(FileVar, OneLine);
- Inc(LineNumber);
- Temporary := OneLine;
- UpperCase(Temporary);
- if Pos(SubString, Temporary) >0
- Then Writeln(LineNumber:3, ': ', OneLine)
- end
- end
- Until Length(SubString) = 0
- end.