From:	Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Command Parser
Date:	Fri, 04 Apr 1997 09:36:54 -0800
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Thomas Demmer wrote:

> flex & bison are exactly what you're looking for. You can find
> the djgpp ports under v2gnu on your local simtel mirror.

Since he's only looking to parse out simply-delimited strings, you're
probably biting off more than he can chew.

He can use the ANSI C library call strtok to do the work for him.

If commandLine is a character array holding the full command line, then
this code will print each command, presuming you want the commands
delimited by spaces:

    char *s;

    for (s = strtok(commandLine, " "); s; s = strtok(0, " ")
        printf("%s\n", s);

Quite a bit simpler.  If he wants to embed spaces in the command line with
escape characters or in double quotes, then he's going to have to do that
himself.

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