Suppose I have a string like this "cmd,param1,param2"
. The String is the Arduino String type. https://www.arduino.cc/en/Reference/String
I want to extract each of the substrings separated by commas. I have successfully written the code for a specific case like this. Here's the code;
String = str_data('cmd,param1,param2');
int firstCommaIndex = str_data.indexOf(',');
int secondCommaIndex = str_data.indexOf(',', firstCommaIndex+1);
String cmd = str_data.substring(0, firstCommaIndex);
String param1 = str_data.substring(firstCommaIndex+1, secondCommaIndex);
String param2 = str_data.substring(secondCommaIndex+1);
My problem is to have a function that solves the general case. The string can be delimited with any number of commas. I would like to have a function that looks like this;
String parserCommaDelimited(String input_delimited_str, int nth_param_num)
{
//implementation
}
Suppose input_delimited_str="cmd,param1,param2,param3,param4"
parserCommaDelimited(input_delimited_str, 1)
returns "cmd"
.
parserCommaDelimited(input_delimited_str, 5)
returns "param4"
.
The following is a basic CSV parser:
void readCSVline(char *line);
char *readCSVfield(char *line, char *buf);
void readCSVdemo(void)
{
char line[]= "0,,10004,10004,\"Albany Hwy After Galliers Av\",\"\",-32.13649428,116.0176090070,3";
readCSVline(line);
}
/* readCSVline is where you put your "intelligence" about fields to read
* and what to do with them
*/
void readCSVline(char *line)
{
char field1[80], *lineptr=line;
int nfields=0;
while (*lineptr) {
lineptr= readCSVfield(lineptr, field1);
printf("%s\n", field1);
nfields++;
}
printf("%d fields read.\n", nfields);
}
/* readCSVfield reads a field from a CSV line until the next comma or end-of-line.
* It returns where the reading stopped.
*/
char *readCSVfield(char *line, char *buf)
{
int instr= FALSE; // track whether we are in a string
char *cptr= line;
while (*cptr)
{
if (instr) {
if (*cptr=='"') {
char cc= *++cptr;
if (cc=='"') // escaped double quote
*buf++ = '"';
else {
*buf='\0';
cptr--;
instr= FALSE;
}
}
else *buf++ = *cptr;
}
else switch (*cptr) {
case '"': instr= TRUE; break;
case ',': cptr++; *buf= '\0'; return(cptr);
case ' ': case '\t': case '\n': case '\r': break;
default: *buf++ = *cptr;
}
cptr++;
}
*buf= '\0';
return(cptr);
}
You can split string as below and get whatever you want.
int split(char *result[], const char *str, char tok) {
char buff[1024]; // it's better to use length of str instead of 1024
int idx = 0;
int len = 0;
int ent_cnt = 0;
int st = 0;
// parse string
while(1) {
char ch = str[len++]; // need checking len to avoid overflow
// end of string?
if (ch == '\0')
break;
switch(st) {
case 0: {
if (ch == tok)
st++;
else
buff[idx++] = ch;
break;
}
case 1: {
if (idx) {
char *entry = malloc(idx + 1);
int i;
for (i = 0; i < idx; i++)
entry[i] = buff[i];
entry[i] = '\0';
result[ent_cnt++] = entry;
idx = 0;
}
// normal char?
if (ch != tok)
buff[idx++] = ch;
st--;
break;
}
default:
break;
}
}
// process last part if any
if (idx) {
char *entry = malloc(idx + 1);
int i = 0;
for (i = 0; i < idx; i++)
entry[i] = buff[i];
entry[i] = '\0';
result[ent_cnt++] = entry;
}
return ent_cnt;
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
char *result[10];
int cnt = split(result, "s,this,is,a,test,", ',');
int i = 0;
for (i = 0; i < cnt; i++) {
printf("%s\n", result[i]);
}
if (cnt != 5) {
printf("Fail!\n");
}
return 0;
}
try with split, in c++ is strtok:
variable = strtok(variable,"delimiter");
converts the string into array, in c++ i don't know, I'm programming with php & javascript, but you can watch it on:
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstring/strtok/
I hope it helps you!