Text Parser - how to

[pritywiz]

I am a very beginner in c. I have to write a text parser to parse a
file with certain fields, a special delimiter.

This file may be in network, and may have to acces from the network.
Any help

[ramasubramanian.rahul]

hi...
what is the delimiter... what is the format in which the file is to be
written...be specific.... people will help only if u be specific ...
pritywiz wrote:

I am a very beginner in c. I have to write a text parser to parse a
file with certain fields, a special delimiter.

This file may be in network, and may have to acces from the network.
Any help

[Clever Monkey]

pritywiz wrote:

I am a very beginner in c. I have to write a text parser to parse a
file with certain fields, a special delimiter.

Then you better get busy. Since your requirements are so secret it
looks like you best write some code and then show us.

This file may be in network, and may have to acces from the network.
Any help

Start simple. Leave networking out of it for now, and just concentrate
on your logic against a test file.

[pritywiz]

At the moment I really dont know, but wanted to give an initial start,
actually I am a PHP programmer and have done such parsing a lot.

But currently we have a requirement in C. I just want you all to give
me a beginner link or a basic code how to achieve this.

For example, if I have an attribute value pair data with each attribute
and value separated by '-' dash and the pair separated by a
semicolon';' and each new record in a new line.

Then if I want this in a database table -- which is also a task after I
parse the text, I should be able to do it.

Prity
ra*******************@gmail.com wrote:

hi...
what is the delimiter... what is the format in which the file is to be
written...be specific.... people will help only if u be specific ...
pritywiz wrote:

I am a very beginner in c. I have to write a text parser to parse a
file with certain fields, a special delimiter.

This file may be in network, and may have to acces from the network.
Any help

[Default User]

ra*******************@gmail.com wrote:

hi...

Please don't top-post. Your replies belong following or interspersed
with properly trimmed quotes. See the majority of other posts in the
newsgroup, or:
<http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html>

[Default User]

pritywiz wrote:

At the moment I really dont know, but wanted to give an initial start,

Please don't top-post. Your replies belong following or interspersed
with properly trimmed quotes. See the majority of other posts in the
newsgroup, or:
<http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html>

[iuz]

pritywiz wrote:

At the moment I really dont know, but wanted to give an initial start,
actually I am a PHP programmer and have done such parsing a lot.

But currently we have a requirement in C. I just want you all to give
me a beginner link or a basic code how to achieve this.

if you are familiar to PHP.. ask yourself how PHP parses php files?
but i think that you need a simple parser so try to write some code and then
come back..

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