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From: "Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96" <condicma@PWFL.COM>
Subject: Re: Help me parse a long character
Date: 1997/11/03
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DHBemis <dhbemis@AOL.COM> writes:
>This is an easy one I'm sure. I'm in my first semester of programming....
>
>I'm trying to parse a 40-character long string. They are formatted in the
> following way:
>
>LASTNAME^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^FIRSTNAME^^^^^^      <--- the variable Full_Name
>
>I'm not sure how to parse it into to two separate variables, first_name and
> Last_name.
>
>I used the get_line procedure to get the string, so I have the last_character
> position. How do I ignore the spaces in between?
>
    Without writing the code for you...

    You might try declaring a three-state enumeration type (last_name,
    intermediate_spaces, first_name) and declaring a variable of that
    type that starts out at "last_name" As your loop scans the array,
    it looks for spaces to change to the middle state and non-spaces
    to change to the last state. The state tells you where to store
    the characters.

    If you don't yet know about enumeration types, try a counter with
    values of "1" "2" and "3" - same thing.

    MDC

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