Text Search Context

A file search utility implemented in both Python and C. It scans a directory of text files for a specific keyword and extracts the matching line plus surrounding context.

Features

• Dual Implementation: Available in both Python (Searchtxt.py) and C (main.c) for performance comparison.
• Context Extraction: Captures the line containing the keyword + the next 2 lines.
• Performance: C implementation typically offers faster processing for large datasets.
• Context-Aware: Ideal for log analysis or mining text data where context matters.

Structure

• Searchtxt.py: Python implementation.
• main.c: C implementation.
• word.txt: Config file containing the search term.

Usage (Python)

1. Ensure your .txt files are in a textfiles/ folder (input).
2. Edit word.txt to contain your search term.
3. Run:

   python Searchtxt.py

4. Results are saved to results.txt.