strtok

[Richard Kreiss]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Brody [mailto:kenb at fptech.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 3:01 PM
> To: rkreiss at gccconsulting.net
> Cc: 'FilePro Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: strtok
> 
> Richard Kreiss wrote:
> > Noted something and I wanted to check if this is the correct behavior.
> >
> > I am importing data from a csv file and need to edit some of the import
> > fields as they are not quite right.
> >
> > One field is a phone # field which can be in the form:
> >
> > EXT 111
> >
> > EXT 111 (212) 555-1212
> >
> > (212) 555-1212
> >
> > This is in foobar(5)
> >
> > I can do a if: mid(foobar(5),"1","1") = "E" and this works fine.
> >
> > However if I do d=strtok(foobar(5),"(","1") to get the position of the
open
> > paran, to extract the phone #, d = "0".
> >
> > Had to do f=foobar(5){"" and then d=strtok(f,"(","1") to get the
starting
> > position to extract the phone #.
> >
> > Mid on foobar(5) works but apparently strtok on foobar(5) won't work.
> >
> > Is this the correct behavior?
> 
> "It works here."
> 
> Can you post some actual code, along with the version of the program you
are
> using?
> 
> --
> Kenneth Brody

Forgot to post 

FP 5.6.07;Windows XP, Server 2003

Richard