RE: strtok

This is a classic strtok() issue with no solution via strtok().
There is another function call strsep() that probably does what you want,
but I do not believe it is in the IBM compiler on the AS/400. But there are
third party packages that offer it and you can probable find the source
on-line and port it to the 400. 
The only other solution is to do it the grunt way... look for each bar
yourself.
-Bob Cozzi


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Tim Randall
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 10:56 AM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: strtok

Hi all,
 
I am using the strtok api and have used it many times.  I seemed to have
come across a situation that it is not working.  I have a string that is has
followed:
 
Test||||||123|x|||8900
 
The problem is that the api seems to skip the delimiters that are stacked.
This is throwing off my fields that are returned.  I thought I would get
back blanks for each field that has nothing between the delimiters.  Instead
the api just seems to keep looking for data to return.  Is there a way to
prevent this or have the number of delimiters returned so I know how many
fields to skip as well?
 
Thanks
 
Tim Randall
Programmer/Analyst
City of Independence

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