Re: strtok and consecutive delimiters -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Re: strtok and consecutive delimiters
From: Hans Boldt <boldt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 09:15:32 -0400
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Wayne Achenbaum wrote:

The Function eats the delimiters, I must know what data was missing between
the delimiters. A PC is passing me a Comma delimited String on a data queue.
Between each comma is critical data.
...

Stepping back for a moment, if the goal is to parse CSV data, then aren't functions like strtok() and strsep() totally insufficient anyways? What happens whan a field in the CSV record contains a field delimiter?

Cheers! Hans

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