Re: Bif or c function with delimeters

[Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My thoughts on this subject can be found here:

http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200408/msg00372.html
http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200408/msg00388.html

Also, PLEASE PLEASE don't listen to anyone who tells you to use the 
absolutely awful strtok() routine.  You'll spend more time coding around 
it's deficiencies than you would writing your own routine. On Unix systems 
where C is the main programming language, strtok() is deprecated and 
considered obsolete because it's so awful.

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Scott Klement  http://www.scottklement.com

On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, 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...
>
> Thanks, Tim