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  3. November 2005

Re: Bif or c function with delimeters


On 04/11/2005, at 10:34 AM, Hatzenbeler, Tim wrote:


If I have a list of items in a single string ie:
Fred;tom;my house;horse
And I wanted to quickly loop through an unknown amount of items... If there 
a bif or c function, that does this?

1st pass, I would want 'fred'  2nd ='tom' .....
I was thinking about scan, to put the ';' locations in an array, and loop through, but I was wondering, if there was anything prettier, that scanning 
the string one character at a time...
Investigate the C language strtok() function. It will do what you want. Be aware that it changes each token to a NULL byte so you need to operate on a copy of the data if you want to keep the original data untouched. 


Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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