Re: RES: [Dev-C++] array of strings

hmm, I believe that every different implementation means new different 
logic, and a different logic means better/worse performance ...

I'll be sending you the final result for comparsion anyway ;)

Regards,
Khalid Al-Kary
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>  >  Hi fellows,
>  >  I'm developing a low-level C-based string manipulation API ...
>  >  in my Implementation of the function "explode" which splits a
>  >  string into
>  >  pieces (with a specified separator) and returns these pieces
>  >  into an array.
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>While you are reinventing the wheel, you can take a look at GLib's
>sources at www.gtk.org. More specifically the funciton g_strsplit():
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>http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-String-Utility-Functions.ht
>ml#g-strsplit
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>Here is the code:
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>Note: "GSList" is a single linked list pointer.
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>/**
>  * g_strsplit:
>  * @string: a string to split.
>  * @delimiter: a string which specifies the places at which to split the
>string.
>  *     The delimiter is not included in any of the resulting strings, 
>unless
>  *     @max_tokens is reached.
>  * @max_tokens: the maximum number of pieces to split @string into. If 
>this
>is
>  *              less than 1, the string is split completely.
>  *
>  * Splits a string into a maximum of @max_tokens pieces, using the given
>  * @delimiter. If @max_tokens is reached, the remainder of @string is
>appended
>  * to the last token.
>  *
>  * As a special case, the result of splitting the empty string "" is an
>empty
>  * vector, not a vector containing a single string. The reason for this
>  * special case is that being able to represent a empty vector is 
>typically
>  * more useful than consistent handling of empty elements. If you do need
>  * to represent empty elements, you'll need to check for the empty string
>  * before calling g_strsplit().
>  *
>  * Return value: a newly-allocated %NULL-terminated array of strings. Use
>  *    g_strfreev() to free it.
>  **/
>gchar**
>g_strsplit (const gchar *string,
>	    const gchar *delimiter,
>	    gint         max_tokens)
>{
>   GSList *string_list = NULL, *slist;
>   gchar **str_array, *s;
>   guint n = 0;
>   const gchar *remainder;
>
>   g_return_val_if_fail (string != NULL, NULL);
>   g_return_val_if_fail (delimiter != NULL, NULL);
>   g_return_val_if_fail (delimiter[0] != '\0', NULL);
>
>   if (max_tokens < 1)
>     max_tokens = G_MAXINT;
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>   remainder = string;
>   s = strstr (remainder, delimiter);
>   if (s)
>     {
>       gsize delimiter_len = strlen (delimiter);
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>       while (--max_tokens && s)
>	{
>	  gsize len;
>	  gchar *new_string;
>
>	  len = s - remainder;
>	  new_string = g_new (gchar, len + 1);
>	  strncpy (new_string, remainder, len);
>	  new_string[len] = 0;
>	  string_list = g_slist_prepend (string_list, new_string);
>	  n++;
>	  remainder = s + delimiter_len;
>	  s = strstr (remainder, delimiter);
>	}
>     }
>   if (*string)
>     {
>       n++;
>       string_list = g_slist_prepend (string_list, g_strdup (remainder));
>     }
>
>   str_array = g_new (gchar*, n + 1);
>
>   str_array[n--] = NULL;
>   for (slist = string_list; slist; slist = slist->next)
>     str_array[n--] = slist->data;
>
>   g_slist_free (string_list);
>
>   return str_array;
>}
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>Daniel K. O.
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>Only ask questions with yes/no answers if you want "yes" or "no" as the
>answer.
>http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/questions-with-yes-or-no-an
>swers.html
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