RE: Tips

[Jonas Bofjall <job@abc.se>]

On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Casper BodenCummins wrote:

> I've been meaning to look at fortune to see whether it can easily handle
> or be adapted to handle different databases of fortune cookies - such as
> tips. I'm running low on free time just now, so does anyone have the

Don't know about fortune... it is a simple program to write though...
The below one prints a random cookie from a text file, in which the
cookies are separated by a blank space. I use it to print a random
Linux Cookie upon login and when someone views my Linux WWW Page
at http://es.matematik.su.se/~p96job/linux.html.
Takes its input from standard in, like in cook < cookiefile.txt.
Does only 1 pass though file, so it need not be seekable.
Feel free to find bugs... I have limited C skills...

-- cook.c --[ cut ]--[ cut ]--[ cut ]--[ cut ]--

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#define LF 10
 
void main() {
  char c;
  unsigned char skriv = 1;
  unsigned int nr = 1;
  unsigned int i = 0;
  char s[1024];
 
  srandom(time(0) + getpid());
  while ( (c=getc(stdin)) != EOF ) {
    if (skriv)
      s[i++] = c;
    if (c == LF) {
      c = getc(stdin);
      while ( (c == 32) || (c == 9) )
        c = getc(stdin);
      if (c == LF) {
        if (random() % ++nr)
          skriv = 0;
        else {
          skriv = 1;
          i = 0;
        }
      }
      else if (skriv)
        s[i++] = c;
    }
  }
  s[i] = 0;
  printf("%s", s);
}

-- cook.c --[ cut ]--[ cut ]--[ cut ]--[ cut ]--

  // Jonas <job@abc.se> [2:201/262.37]


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