[fpc-pascal] splitting string into array

[Marc Santhoff]

Am Dienstag, den 10.07.2007, 14:56 +0200 schrieb Andrea Mauri:
> I used this, check it.
> 
> // Returns an array with the parts of "str" separated by "separator"
> function Split(const str: string; const separator: string): array of string;
> var
>   i, n: integer;
>   strline, strfield: string;
> begin
>   n:= Occurs(str, separator);
>   SetLength(Result, n + 1);
>   i := 0;
>   strline:= str;
>   repeat
>     if Pos(separator, strline) > 0 then
>     begin
>       strfield:= Copy(strline, 1, Pos(separator, strline) - 1);
>       strline:= Copy(strline, Pos(separator, strline) + 1, 
> Length(strline) - pos(separator,strline));
>     end
>     else
>     begin
>       strfield:= strline;
>       strline:= '';
>     end;
>     Result[i]:= strfield;
>     Inc(i);
>   until strline= '';
>   if Result[High(Result)] = '' then SetLength(Result, Length(Result) -1);
> end;      

Pretty cool, thank you very much.

> andrea
> 
> Wolfram Kläger ha scritto:
> > Here is a Delphi implementation of the common PHP function 'explode'.
> >
> > http://www.michael-puff.de/Developer/Delphi/Code-Snippets/Explode.html

I'll look at that one, too. Maybe someday my arrays grow and speed
becomes an issue - better to check which one is fastest.

Wouldn't this function be a candidate for crawling into the 'strutils'
unit?

Marc