Davide Angelocola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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().
A simpler interface, especially with a well-known name as 'split', which at least to Perl programmers is close to an idiom, has some separate value. Perhaps 'split' could be implemented using 'argcv_get'. Anyway, I like your proposal in general. /Simon
