char *inputstring;
while(inputstring && inputstring[0])
{
char *x=StrChr(inputstring,chrColon);
if(x)
{
//you can process substring betweein inputstring and x
//for example
// char *word=(char *)MemPtrNew(x-inputstring);
// StrNCopy(word,inputstring,x-inputstring);
// word[x-inputstring-1]=0;
// do anything you want with word
// MemPtrFRee(word);
inputstring=x+1;
}
else
{
//you can process last portion of string from inputsring
inputstring=NULL;
}
}
Ken Hoyes wrote:
> I am trying to parse strings of data read from a text file and
> can't find a way to do it.
>
> The data can be divided with any suitable character - a colon
> for instance.
>
> I see how to iterate through the string looking for chrColon but
> then what?
>
> If I find chrColon at position i and j of str1, how do I then make
> str2 a sub-string of the characters between i and j?
>
> I found a net-page on String Constructors in C++ that provide
> functions including
>
> string str1(str2,11,4)
>
> but the word "string" is not recognised in PODS. I tried including
> the line
>
> #include <string>
>
> as was used in the article I found at
> http://www.cppreference.com/cppstring/string_constructors.html
> but that generated errors by the 1000 when building the Palm
> application.
>
> Surely I must be missing something obvious, there has to be an
> easy way of doing this.
>
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