cuuee@warwick.ac.uk (Sean Legassick) (07/19/90)
Does anyone know of a C routine that will expand strings containing
numbers and ranges into a list of strings, or will give you the
numbers one at a time.
e.g. A function 'expand_range(char *string, char *buffer);' which on
being given a pointer to the string "1,3-6,9-11,15" would place in
buffer the string "1,3,4,5,6,9,10,11,15" (perhaps also having
an integer argument for size of buffer so that a spurious '9-9999'
didn't corrupt all data memory!)
or Two functions, 'int expand_range_start(char *str);' and 'int
expand_range_next(char *str);' which would return the expanded
list of numbers one at a time.
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