If you're working in a language with structures you can just do the work by
moving the field into a predefined strucutre.  On the other hand in  C you
could use a UNION or in COBOL redefines.  That's probably the least amount
of work.

Charles Finley
Transformix Computer Corporation
Oceanside, CA
(760) 439-3146

> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of Donna Garverick
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 3:12 PM
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> Subject: Re: regexp?
>
>
> Wirt Atmar wrote:
>
> > Is this another one of those "Fun with C" quizzes, where you
> must write a
> > loop without using any "IF"'s, so people try every dodge in the book to
> > accomplish it, but where "IF"'s still lie at the heart of every attempt?
>
> uh no :-)
>
> > If you're going to partition a string into its component
> pieces, you're going
> > to have to engage some form of substring manipulation,
> regardless of what you
> > call it. Thus the question is, why make life more obscure and
> difficult than
> > it already is?
>
> ok ok....having been shown the light.....it would appear to be
> better to just do
> the substring extraction and not try to be so tricky.             - d
>
> --
> Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
>    - Arthur Clarke
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