Thread: How to write code for separating words from a string ?

May I know how to write a c++ program where a string value is to be read in from the keyboard and the program should generate an output in the following format :

Example : Mr Brown*246 The Park Building*Neopets Area*Country

Output :
Mr Brown
246
The Park Building
Neopets Area
Country

May I know what code to use to write the above program? I did try to use 'strtok' to write but it only return to a new line whenever it see a spacing and not a * .
Can anyone please enlightened me on this problem ?
Thank You.

Originally posted by dingtang

Example : Mr Brown*246 The Park Building*Neopets Area*Country

Output :
Mr Brown
246
The Park Building
Neopets Area
Country

Try using the CString class, itt'l make things a lot easier for you.

Thank you vVv for your reply. But when I run your program, my program show me a error message ' Undefined symbol 'separated'.
May I know why ?
I am using Borland Builder 5.

Thanks

Thank you vVv. I can run the program now but how come the output is different from what I expected ? I only want a new line whenever the code detected an * . May I know how to improve on it ?

Thank you very much .

Ah, I'm dumb- Read your question absent-minded. Well, just change

if( text[i] != '*' /*no && != ' ' here*/ )

and

for( i =0; i < 4; i++ )

>I only want a new line whenever the code detected an *

Then your example misses a '*' after 246.

Here is an example written in java that will read a string from a file and return an array of strings. It should be easy to adapt it to C /C++.

Code:

import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;

public class ParsingStreamReader
{
  BufferedReader file;

  public ParsingStreamReader(InputStream in)
  {
    file= new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
  }

  public String readLine()
  {
    try
    {
      return file.readLine();
    }
    catch(Exception e)
    {
      return null;
    }
  }

  public String[] parseLine()
  {
    String ps[]=new String[0];
    String str;
    String tmp[]=null;
    int front=0,end=0;

    try
    {
      str=file.readLine();
    }
    catch(Exception e)
    {
      return null;
    }
    if(str==null)return null;
    str=str.trim(); //Remove white space from the front and back of the string.
    if(str.length()==0)return ps;

    while((str.charAt(end)>' ')&&(end<str.length()-1))end++;

    while(true)
    {
      tmp=ps;
      ps=new String[ps.length+1];
      for(int x=0;x<tmp.length;x++) ps[x]=tmp[x];
      ps[ps.length-1]=str.substring(front, end);
      if(end>=str.length()-1)break;
      if(end<str.length()-2)
      while((str.charAt(end+1)<=' ')&&(end<str.length()-1))end++;
      front=end+1;
      end=front;
      if(end<=str.length()-1)
      while((str.charAt(end)>' ')&&(end<str.length()-1))end++;
      if(end==str.length()-1)end=str.length();
    }
    return ps;
  }
}

Thank you very much for all your help. I still have a question, how to write the code where the user input the sentence ? For example there will be a question asking the user to enter a sentence and then the program will separate the sentence into different new line.

Is it using printf("enter text:") ?

But if I use printf , how do i amend the rest of the code that vVv had written ?

Please enlightened me. I am totally new to C programming and I am very grateful to those that written the above message to me.

Thanks again.