ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) (05/06/91)
I'm an experienced Awk programmer who's recently started on C.
The biggest thing I miss is the split() function. If you have
written some such function, could you please donate it to me? It
will make my life a lot happier.
Thanks,
-ans.
P.S.: int split(char *s, char **words, char FS)
takes string s and field seperator FS. Generates array of
words in words, function returns number of fields found.
Weird special hacks:
- multiple consecutive blank FS are ignored
e.g. split("this is", words, " ") will give
fields "this", "is".
- any other multiple FSs are respected
e.g. split("this||||is", words, "|") will give
fields "this", "", "", "", "is.
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Ajay Shah, (213)734-3930, ajayshah@usc.edu
The more things change, the more they stay insane.
_______________________________________________________________________________dauerbach@cup.portal.com (David Dave Auerbach) (05/11/91)
Dr, Dobbs Journal had an article last year about AWK extensions to C. I don't have it handy here in the office and I don't remember what functions (or which issue) they created. It was something I saved for future use since I use awk a lot too. -dave
pete@indep1.MCS.COM (Peter Franks) (05/14/91)
Take a look at the function 'strtok'. It should be a reasonable excercise for you to use it to write your own 'split' function. You'll learn more by doing it yourself than you would by getting it handed to you. *:^)