On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 01:26, Sven Barth <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 05.08.2011 15:06, schrieb Marco van de Voort: >> >> On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 08:55:39AM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: >>> >>> A few months ago I was reading lots of SNMP MIBs (sming format), and >>> wrote a parser using a Meta-2 derivative. However in the general case, >>> and particularly for line-oriented input, it's probably a job for either >>> regexes or an (as yet unwritten) equivalent to format() etc. However, >>> error recovery (when a line departs from the accepted format part-way >>> through) is not going to be easy. >> >> sscanf's like constructs are also a possibility. ARRAY OF CONST is strong >> enough to implement it. > > And there seems to be already a starting point: > http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/sscanf.html
It is based on "array of pointer", not "array of const". I have no doubts that the former is possible -- my question was about the latter. Anyway, good find -- original poster might find this procedure useable. > Also someone already has implemented a scanf port for Delphi that's based on > "array of const" though the license isn't suitable for FPC: > http://reocities.com/siliconvalley/grid/9828/Delphi/scanf_d.html > This link doesnot work for me. -- Alexander S. Klenin -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
