Newbie question on string/pchar parsing.

[aappleton]

Hello, I am a Java/VB developer that has suddenly been plunged into the C/C++ world, so I hope somebody can answer a question for me.
I have written some code that takes as a parameter an array of pchar:

char *arg_v[]

A typical parameter would be:

Param1='Value1'
in that format. What I would like to do is take the text between the single quotes, and assign that either to a string, or another pchar.

I have made some code, and it works - to a point, but it is very long and looks complicated, so is bad for maintenance. Also, it is probably error-prone.

Is there any string/pchar handling function in C/C++ that can perform this in a single operation?

Thanks,
AA.

[devil_slayer]

In C I'd look at a function called "sscanf()" and its friends...

[twm]

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char buff[1001];
...
sscanf(pair, "%*[^']'%1000[^']'", buff);


[Raindog]

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char buff[1001];
...
sscanf(pair, "%*[^']'%1000[^']'", buff);


Thanks, that was helpful.