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That's very true Hans. When I wrote one for a Windows app four years ago, I used the scan method to look at each character and parse the field. I think strtok is great if you can be assured that you have data like this coming in: 123,456,789,123,456 But if you have something like this: 12345,"IBM Corporation","Robert Cozzi, Jr.","Hwy 52 and N.W. 37th St",Rochester,MN Then you're screwed if you use strtok(). Bob Cozzi Cozzi Consulting www.rpgiv.com -----Original Message----- From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Hans Boldt Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 8:16 AM To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: strtok and consecutive delimiters 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 _______________________________________________ This is the RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries (RPG400-L) mailing list To post a message email: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/rpg400-l or email: RPG400-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l.
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