RE: Bif or c function with delimeters

["Hatzenbeler, Tim" <thatzenbeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank!  The gettok procedure worked perfectly..  I was aware of the pitfalls
of strtok, but I was wondering, if there was a better option...  I have
written countless parsers before, but I was trying to find a generally
accepted rpg version if one existed...

Thanks again, Tim  

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 4:14 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Bif or c function with delimeters


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.

---
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