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piece function - there must be an easier/more elegant way !?

• Posted by freeplay at mailandnews.com May 14, 2001
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Hello folks,

Attached is a short text file containing a function I've called piece.

It takes three arguments, a string sequence, a delimiter character and an 
integer index.  Using the delimter character it chops the string into pieces 
and returns the one specified by the integer index.  The integer index begins 
at 1.

Hence:

sequence s
s = "andy:1:hello there::ok"

printf(1, "%s", {piece(s, ':', 1)})

gives "andy"

printf(1, "%s", {piece(s, ':', 2)})

gives "1"

printf(1, "%s", {piece(s, ':', 3)})

gives "hello there" and

printf(1, "%s", {piece(s, ':', 4)})

gives the null string "".

Asking for a piece out of range will also give "".

I think the way I've coded this is rather bad - there must be a more elegant 
solution.  Any offers?  I've thought of strtok.e in the archives but it might 
be a little overkill for my needs.

Note I needed to put the code in an attached text file as my web based mailer 
messes up code indentation something rotton.

Best regards,

FP.

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