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Re: new module proposal: split
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Simon Josefsson |
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Re: new module proposal: split |
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Wed, 06 Sep 2006 09:56:59 +0200 |
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Davide Angelocola <address@hidden> writes:
> 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().
A simpler interface, especially with a well-known name as 'split',
which at least to Perl programmers is close to an idiom, has some
separate value. Perhaps 'split' could be implemented using
'argcv_get'.
Anyway, I like your proposal in general.
/Simon
- new module proposal: split, Davide Angelocola, 2006/09/05
- Re: new module proposal: split, Ben Pfaff, 2006/09/05
- Re: new module proposal: split, Davide Angelocola, 2006/09/05
- Re: new module proposal: split, Ben Pfaff, 2006/09/06
- Re: new module proposal: split, Ralf Wildenhues, 2006/09/06
- Re: new module proposal: split, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2006/09/06
- Re: new module proposal: split, Davide Angelocola, 2006/09/06
- Re: new module proposal: split,
Simon Josefsson <=