Re: Buffered reading of stream files

Brian,

The open(), read() and close() APIs are not part of C. They're Unix-type APIs -- part of the system-provided APIs. Not part of ILE C.

I strongly recommend against strtok() -- in most Unix and C environments, strtok() is considered deprecated. Consider using strsep() if you really need to use a C function for something as simple as tokenizing. You should have no trouble finding an open source copy of strsep that you can put on your system. If you can't, let me know and I'll show you where to find it.

Alternately, you might try taking 5 minutes and writing one in RPG. It's just not that hard. In fact, if you look at when we discussed this previously in this forum, you'll see that I wrote one called gettok() that I posted here. Took me 5 minutes, and was easier to use than from RPG strtok()



BMay@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Generally speaking, I stick with the OPEN, READ, and CLOSE functions from C. As for the parsing, I am a big fan of STRTOK from C. Basically you pass STRTOK the string and the delimiters and and it passes back the chunks between the delimiters one at a time. You might want to check it out.

HTH,

Brian May
Project Lead
Management Information Systems
Garan, Incorporated
Starkville, Mississippi

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