String Tokeniser

Maintainer

Steven White

Description

This class breaks a string into tokens.

Categories

• Libraries - String Handling

Versions

• 1.0 (1999-04-01)

Links

• » Downloads (old Eiffel Forum site)

Features

• Default or custom separator characters
• Iterate over tokens
• Optional stripping of leading and trailing whitespace
• Optional uppercase and lowercase conversion
• Optional quoting, within which separator characters are ignored

Example

	local
		token : STRING
		tokens : STRING_TOKENS
	do
		from
			!!tokens.make
                        tokens.set_delimiters(",")
			tokens.set("this is a string")
		until
			tokens.is_empty
		loop	
			token := tokens.next
			print(token)
		end
	end

Supported compilers

• ISE Eiffel (ISE Eiffel)
• SmartEiffel (SmallEiffel)
• Visual Eiffel

Licensing

• » Eiffel Forum Freeware License Version 1

Packages using String Tokeniser

• Chart Parser by Steven White

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