RE: Clever UNIX/C Constructs

[Chris Bipes <chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

AGREED!  Skipping consecutive delimiters bit me big.  That is what I meant,
not clearly said, by null data.  Wish it returned a blank or null field.
StrTok ran 20% faster than %scan did.  I don't understand your second
comment about what the delimiter was.  You tell StrTok what the delimiter is
to use or it defaults to *NULL.

If you ever remember or find out about the alternate, I am very interested
in tests to see if it will perform faster than %scan does.  We receive ASCII
7 bit strings to process in real time for our check guarantee product.  We
do thousands of these a day and hundreds a minute darning peak.  The faster
the better.

Christopher K. Bipes    mailto:ChrisB@Cross-Check.com
Sr. Programmer/Analyst  mailto:Chris_Bipes@Yahoo.com
CrossCheck, Inc.        http://www.cross-check.com
6119 State Farm Drive   Phone: 707 586-0551 x 1102
Rohnert Park CA  94928  Fax: 707 586-1884

If consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, only geniuses work here.
Karen Herbelin - Readers Digest 3/2000

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon.Paris@hal.it [mailto:Jon.Paris@hal.it]
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 9:02 AM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Clever UNIX/C Constructs



 >> This walks a string, skipping null data thus making it useless.

My hang-ups with strtok are two-fold.  First it ignores consecutive
delimiters - and therefore can't be used effectively with many comma
delimited files.  Second that it doesn't tell me what the delimiter was.
Somebody told me a while back that there was another more useful tokenizing
function but I can't find it so far.

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