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From: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: Re: Parsing a line into strings
Date: 1998/07/10
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Date: 1998-07-10T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <35a52ade.0@news-in.dtc.net> Darren Davenport <dcd2@NOSPAMnov.diac.com> writes:

  > Why wouldn't Find_Token from one of the Ada.Strings.* packages
  > work?  Seems to me like it's fairly equivalent and doesn't require
  > roll-your-own code or the non-portable Spitbol.

   I was wondering how long it would take for someone to suggest this.
Note that Find_Token is a little more general that strtok, since you
can test for (in this case) tokens delimited by comma or space, or
better, test by enumerating all the characters permitted in tokens.
--

					Robert I. Eachus

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