Title: GetToken function II - Modified from Sebastian Volland work
Question: A GetToken function modified.
It will get the next token on a string delimited by special characters, it will also alter the initial string so you can call this function several times to get "theNextToken" much like strtok() does in C.
Answer:
{ (C) MMI, Luis F. Franco,
Based on Sebastian Volland article at Delphi3000
( http://www.delphi3000.com )
http://www.delphi3000.com/article.asp?ID=1149
Syntax
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GetToken(srcString,delStr,nTok);
srcString : String - String to be parsed
delStr : String - String containing a "list" of possible delimiters
numTok : Byte - Get me token number nTok, by default this one is 1
(I normally want just the first token)
Example:
--------
a := "AA,BB/CC,DD";
// You can have two separators, the /s and the ,s if you don't care about
// them and just want the "next" token, you can use:
theResult := getToken(a,',/');
// Since a is being passed as reference, the value of a its reduced, this
// makes simplier to make succesive calls to the function, this is what
// (just like C's strtok() does)
// I was working at:
// This came from somewhere else: It is financial data:
// date, open price, open value, high value, low value, close, volume
a := '01-Jan-00,3.25,3.75,3,3,19283';
// So, I parse it with:
date := getToken(a,',');
open := getToken(a,',');
high := getToken(a,',');
low := getToken(a,',');
close := getToken(a,',');
volume := getToken(a,',');
Note:
If it doesn't find the desired delimitator, it will return "a", this is
intentional, since a line on CSV files NEVER ends on a ',', in this case
variable a won't be modified either.
}
function GetToken(var a: String; Sep: String; Num: Byte = 1) : string;
var
Token : String;
StrLen : Integer;
TNum : Integer;
TEnd : Integer;
i : integer;
f : boolean;
begin
strLen := Length(a);
TNum := 0;
TEnd := StrLen;
while ((TNum 0)) do begin
f := false;
for i := 1 to length(sep) do begin
TEnd := pos(copy(sep,i,1),a);
if TEnd 0 then begin
StrLen := min(TEnd, strLen);
f := true;
end;
end;
if f then TEnd := StrLen;
if TEnd0 then begin
Token := Copy(a,1,TEnd-1);
Delete(a,1,TEnd);
Inc(TNum);
end else Token:=a;
end;
Result := token;
end;