array breaker

Can anyone help me out.


I need to validate a record read into an array and i have to seperate the fields entered.

for Example

user input: allen - 2234 - 3d

I need to break it up into separate parts when a '-' is encountered and then check the fields to see if the are all chars or ints. Actually checking the fields i am comfortable with, but i am not allowed to use the string.h library and so no strtok, so here is my question:

Is there an equivalent way of breaking up the array this with out using strtok . Are there any other functions that can be used to separte these?

Please no unions or structs, just arrays please

thanku

nah

Just use a char * to loop through the array and test each character in turn to see if it's a '-'. When found you can do whatever ya like.

In other words, why not write strtok yourself. It's not too hard to do.

You can try strstr (find string in string) or strchr (find character in string).

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Originally posted by Monster
You can try strstr (find string in string) or strchr (find character in string).

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Aren't both of these in string.h ? alokin said he wasn't allowed to use that header file.:)

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Originally posted by Hammer


Aren't both of these in string.h ? alokin said he wasn't allowed to use that header file.:)

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You're right, my mistake...:D

alokin : write some code, if it doesn't do what you expect, post it here when you get stuck, and we'll help you out.