On Wednesday 06 September 2006 08:20, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote: > In mailutils, we use the function argcv_get: > > int argcv_get (const char *string, const char *delim, const char *cmnt, > int *argc, char ***argv); > > which breaks the `string' according to the delimiters in `delim', > eventually ignoring anything after the comment starter `cmnt'. It fills > in the array `argv' with the collected tokens and stores the number of > them in the memory location pointed to by `argc'. The array `argv' is > NULL terminated. Quotes and backslashes within `string' are handled in > shell-like fashion, i.e. "the \"new string\"" will produce two tokens > "the" and "new string". > > The function returns 0 on success. Both `delim' and `cmnt' can be NULL. > > It seems to do just what the proposed split module should be doing, > doesn't it? argcv_get has more features than split(). It's ok for me to use this in place of split().
-- Davide Angelocola
