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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


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