On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 04:02:29AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:33:43 -0700, Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org> wrote: > > Guys, > > > > maybe this can't be done reading in a file with fgets(buffer[128], fp), > > then calling skiptags(), conditionally, to while () past ',' and '>'. > > > > I know I need to calll skipTags with its address, skipTags(&buffer);, > > but then how to i > > handle the variable "s" in skipTags? Anybody? > > It's quite complicated. Soes it need to be? :-) > > > > > // redo, skip TAGS > > Is this C or C++ source code? I always thought // was C++ > specific... > > > > > skipTags((char *)&s) > > Where's my return datatype? And when (int) is the default, > where is my return statement? :-) > > > { > > if (*s == '<') > > { > > while (*s != '>') > > { > > s++; > > } > > s++; > > } > > } > > If you need type conversion, you can't do this in the > function's declaration. You need to perform this with > the call. The function would rather start as > > void skipTags(char *s) > > and then be called with the correct pointer > > char *bla; > ... > skipTags(bla); > > Instead of pointer arithmethics, which is one of the > ultimate skills in C, you could use an iterator from 0 > to strlen(s). > > I think the code above is just part of a bigger mechanism. > Looks like you want to "shift" the character pointer to > override any <...> segments, and then let some other > parts do something more, right?
i hadn't thought of this approach, but counting the number of bytes in a <TAG> might wwork!! gary > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"