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  • Subject: RE: Clever UNIX/C Constructs
  • From: Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 17:17:13 -0600 (CST)


Have you tried sscanf?   The syntax can get a bit ugly, but it might work
better than strtok.  (just a thought)


On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Chris Bipes wrote:

> AGREED!  Skipping consecutive delimiters bit me big.  That is what I meant,
> not clearly said, by null data.  Wish it returned a blank or null field.
> StrTok ran 20% faster than %scan did.  I don't understand your second
> comment about what the delimiter was.  You tell StrTok what the delimiter is
> to use or it defaults to *NULL.
> 
> If you ever remember or find out about the alternate, I am very interested
> in tests to see if it will perform faster than %scan does.  We receive ASCII
> 7 bit strings to process in real time for our check guarantee product.  We
> do thousands of these a day and hundreds a minute darning peak.  The faster
> the better.
> 

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