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Re: new module proposal: split


From: Davide Angelocola
Subject: Re: new module proposal: split
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 09:15:36 +0200
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On Wednesday 06 September 2006 08:20, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> In mailutils, we use the function argcv_get:
>
> int argcv_get (const char *string, const char *delim, const char *cmnt,
>                int *argc, char ***argv);
>
> which breaks the `string' according to the delimiters in `delim',
> eventually ignoring anything after the comment starter `cmnt'.  It fills
> in the array `argv' with the collected tokens and stores the number of
> them in the memory location pointed to by `argc'.  The array `argv' is
> NULL terminated.  Quotes and backslashes within `string' are handled in
> shell-like fashion, i.e. "the \"new string\"" will produce two tokens
> "the" and "new string".
>
> The function returns 0 on success.  Both `delim' and `cmnt' can be NULL.
>
> It seems to do just what the proposed split module should be doing,
> doesn't it?
argcv_get has more features than split(). It's ok for me to use this in 
place of split().

-- Davide Angelocola




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