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RE: Newbie Question

• Posted by rforno at tutopia.com Apr 27, 2001
• 418 views

Please, tell me where can I get strtok.e
Thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: Kat <gertie at PELL.NET>
Subject: RE: Newbie Question


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> On 25 Apr 2001, at 22:00, rforno at tutopia.com wrote:
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Travis Beaty <travisbeaty at arn.net>
> > To: EUforum <EUforum at topica.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 3:11 PM
> > Subject: Re: Newbie Question
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> > >
> > > Howdy!
> > >
> > >
> > > tpopel at yahoo.com wrote:
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> > > > I have to do some work with 2 dimensional, comma
> > > > delimited text files.
> > > >
> > > > Is this the kind of thing Euphoria does well?
> > >
> > > Very well, for numerous reasons!
> > >
> > > > What replaces the old input# statement from basic?
> > >
> > > Wow, that was a *long* time ago.  Somebody back me up on this, but I
> > > believe that you are looking for the Euphoria function gets().  So,
> > > you'd do something like this ...
> > >
> > > integer
> > >     FileId
> > >
> > > object
> > >     data
> > >
> > > FileId = open("mydata.txt", "r")
> > > data = gets(FileId)
> > > ...
> > > close(FileId)
> > >
> > > -- Travis --
> > >
> > >
> >
> > This does not solve the problem. gets() only gets one line (up to \n)
from
> > the file, but does not separate the items as delimited by commas. After
> > that, you should use the value() function.
> > But value() has a shortcoming: after getting the first numerical item up
to the
> > following space or comma (or any non-numerical character), it does not
show the
> > point up to which it got. What Euphoria needs is a function, similar to
value(),
> <snip>
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> Strtok.e has:
> gettok() to get the data tween the commas
> toknum() to count the data tween the commas
> gettok() to get the data item you specify
> instok() to put a data item in tween commas
> deltok(),, well, you get it
> reptok() replace a certain data field
> parse() to return the data items in gets() as sequences
> deparse() to make a nested seq into a sentence or comma delinited string
or
> whatever.
> etc
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> and you can spec as delimiters a comma, semicolon, or any other one-byte
> char. If you pass gettok() a paragraph with sentences delimited with ascii
10,
> use gettok(paragraph,10). To get words out of the sentence, use a ' ' or
32.

> at least i think i updated that before sending it in to RDS, make all the
"char
> c" in the functions into "integer c".) Also, empty data fields in a comma
> delimited line may not be parsed properly, so comment out these lines in
> parse():
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> --   doublec = c & c
> --   while match(doublec,s) do
> --     s = s[1..match(doublec,s)] & s[match(doublec,s)+2..length(s)]
> --   end while
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> Kat
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