The following is an old word puzzle: \"name a common word, besides tremendous, s

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The following is an old word puzzle: "name a common word, besides tremendous, stupendous and horrendous, that ends in dous." If you think about this for a while, it will probably come to you. however, we can also solve this puzzle by reading a text file of english words and outputting the word if it contains "dous" at the end. The text file "words.txt" contains a large number of english words, including the word that completes the puzzle. This file is available online with the source code for the book. Write a program that reads each word from the text file and outputs only those containing "dous" at the end to solve the puzzle.

The program is attached below, but I cant compile it. Help

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <iomanip>
using namespace std;

bool stringSearch (char[], char[]);
const int size=20;

int main()
{
  
   char words.txt[16];
  
   ifstream in_word;
  
   char word[size];
   char searchword[] = "dous";
  
   cout << "Enter file name " <<endl;
   cin >> words.txt;
  
   in_word.open (words.txt, ios::in);
  
   cout << "Text File Name: " << words.txt <<endl;
   cout << "Dictionary Words Containing the Word " << searchword << endl;
   cout << " " << endl <<endl;;
  
   while (!in_word.eof())
   {
       in_word.getline (word, size);
      
       if (stringSearch(word, searchword))
      
       cout << setw(15) << right << word << endl;
   }
  
   return 0;
}

bool stringSearch (char chString[], char searchString[])
{
   int index = 0;
   int count = 0;
   int i = 0;
   int len=strlen(searchString);
  
   while (*chString! = '')
   {
       if (*chString==*searchString){
           for (int k=0; k<len; k++){
               if (*chString++==*searchString++)
                   count++;
           }
       }
       else
       {
           chString++;
           cout = 0;
       }
       if (count == len)
           break;
   }
   if (count == len) return true;
   else return false;
}

Explanation / Answer

Hi, I have corrected your code.

Please Test it.

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <string.h>
using namespace std;
bool stringSearch (char[], char[]);
const int size=20;
int main()
{
  
char fileName[16];
  
ifstream in_word;
  
char word[size];
char searchword[] = "dous";
  
cout << "Enter file name " <<endl;
cin >> fileName;
  
in_word.open (fileName, ios::in);
  
cout << "Text File Name: " << fileName <<endl;
cout << "Dictionary Words Containing the Word " << searchword << endl;
cout << " " << endl <<endl;;
  
while (!in_word.eof())
{
in_word.getline (word, size);
  
if (stringSearch(word, searchword))
  
cout << setw(15) << right << word << endl;
}
  
return 0;
}
bool stringSearch (char chString[], char searchString[])
{
int index = 0;
int count = 0;
int i = 0;
int len=strlen(searchString);
  
while (*chString != '')
{
if (*chString==*searchString){
for (int k=0; k<len; k++){
if (*chString++==*searchString++)
count++;
}
}
else
{
chString++;
count = 0;
}
if (count == len)
break;
}
if (count == len) return true;
else return false;
}

/*

Output:

Enter file name
words.txt
Text File Name: words.txt
Dictionary Words Containing the Word dous
  

tremendous
stupendous
horrendous

*/

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