Hi,

I'm searching for a good way to read the content of a file line by line and then tokenize the content of each line.

Let's say I have a text file with the following content:

row1;sometext;0;0;1;0;moretext;
row2;alsotext;1;1;0;1;againtext;
row3;textagain;1;0;1;0;moreblabla;

Now I'd like to read each line, separate its content to store it in a multi array, for example:

myarray[0][0] = row1
myarray[0][1] = sometext
myarray[0][2] = 0
...
myarray[1][0] = row2
myarray[1][1] = alsotext

and so on.

Do I have to use file_str_read first to read the whole line and then something like a combi of str_stri,str_len and str_trunc for tokenizing the line ??? I think there must be
a better way ?!?

If I'd use file_str_readto with delimiter ";" how would I know when the next line starts?

Can somebody help me?

Best regards,
Pegamode.

maby you can use file find file_find

Hmmm ... with file_find I could maybe get rid of reading the content into an array, because I could directly access the needed data and save it into my struct, but I still need to read the rest of the line and tokenize it.

I don't know how I could do that with file_find.

you could try:

row1,sometext,0,0,1,0,moretext,*
row2,alsotext,1,1,0,1,againtext,*
row3,textagain,1,0,1,0,moreblabla,*

then use file_str_read(). it will read off "row1" the first time, "sometext" on the next read, etc. Then you just watch for "*" to know that your at the end of a line.

Hi Caermundh,

thanks for your answer.

I had the same idea yesterday and it works fine so far.

Would be great if Conitec would add some functions to directly work with csv files or in general to tokenize strings in a better way.

Best regards,
Pegamode.