How could find each string from tab delimited string

Hello,
I have a tab delimited string such as ""jack\tis\ta\tgood\tboy"
I would like to read and store each string such as "Jack", "is", "a", "good", "boy" in separate variables.
A example lisp will be higly appreciated. Thank you.

 

You can store string in list with:

; delimiter = 1 character
;
(defun ALE_String2List (InpStr CarDlm / SttPos EndPos TmpLst)
(setq
CarDlm (ascii CarDlm) SttPos 0
EndPos (vl-string-position CarDlm InpStr)
)
(while EndPos
(setq
TmpLst (cons (substr InpStr (1+ SttPos) (- EndPos SttPos)) TmpLst)
SttPos (1+ EndPos) EndPos (vl-string-position CarDlm InpStr SttPos)
)
)
(reverse (cons (substr InpStr (1+ SttPos)) TmpLst))
)

commandALE_String2List "jack\tis\ta\tgood\tboy" "\t")
("jack" "is" "a" "good" "boy")

or:

;John Uhden, Cadlantic/formerly CADvantage
; delimiter = 1 or more characters

(defun Str2List (str pat / i j n lst)
(cond
((/= (type str)(type pat) 'STR))
((= str pat)'(""))
(T
(setq i 0 n (strlen pat))
(while (setq j (vl-string-search pat str i))
(setq lst (cons (substr str (1+ i)(- j i)) lst)
i (+ j n)
)
)
(reverse (cons (substr str (1+ i)) lst))
)
)
)

Then you can store items in list in variables with a foreach.

 

There is a Parse function located at
http://code.acadx.com/visuallisp/036.htm

--
R. Robert Bell, MCSE
www.AcadX.com


Hello,
I have a tab delimited string such as ""jack\tis\ta\tgood\tboy"
I would like to read and store each string such as "Jack", "is", "a",
"good", "boy" in separate variables.
A example lisp will be higly appreciated. Thank you.

 

Hi Herman,

my aplologies for delay:

IMHO strings like "jack\tis\ta\tgood\tboy" and "this,is,,a,string,,foo"
are originate from the reading of lines in files where the data are
structured
(database) and where every field is separated by a delimiter, if a field is
empty it is represented by an null string in the resultant list.

Then I think that either better that the lists in exit have an equal number
of elements to have the rigth value of each field and postpone the possible
elimination of the empty elements (null strings) during the following
elaboration of the resultant lists.

Example1:

Name1 Name2 Age H W
----------------------------------
Marco Alessi 47 1.70 80

"Marco,Alessi,47,1.70,80"

Marco Alessi is 47 years old, height 1.70 mt and weight is 80 Kg


Example2:

Name1 Name2 Age H W
----------------------------------
Marco Alessi 1.70 80

"Marco,Alessi,,1.70,80"

Marco Alessi is 1.70 years old, height 80 mt and weight is nil Kg


--

Sorry for my english.


Cheers.

Marco