obtaining data from string.

[adrianmah]

Hi, i am newin this. can you help me on this problem? I am trying to capture a string of data seperated by ":". is this coding correct? else please help.

text of string to capture:
12:Ian Richards:Africa:33 Beach Street:Hervey Bay:465507)4567 8901
34:Yan Li:Secret:13 Mockingbird Lane:Mysteryville:765403)2345 6789

coding:
fscanf(fptr, "%2s %c %[^\:] %c %[^\:]%*[^\:]%*c %c %[^\:] %c %[^\:] %c %[^\n]\n", newPtr->id,o, newPtr->name,o, newPtr->password,o, newPtr->address,o, newPtr->code,o, newPtr->phone);

o is use to capture the ":".
please help.

 

[RGCook]

If you are doing it using VB.NET, one simple method would be:

Dim linString As String
Dim linVal() As String
linString = 'enter the string you want here...
linVal = linString.Split(":&quot 'where : = delimiter

linVal will be a string array that you can process further as you see fit

 

[TiL]

Try the ANSI strtok function defined in <string.h> which is used to extract fields separated by a token (colon in your case).

TiL