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String Parsing Class (supports quoted strings)

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Parse strings with specified delimiter and specified quote character
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// FILE NAME:	StringParser.h
//
// PURPOSE:		Definition of the CStringParser class.
//
// DESCRIPTION:	This class acepts a string and immediately parses it into 
//				separate fields based on the delimiter character specified by 
//				the programmer.  The separated fields are stored in a 
//				CStringArray, and the 0th element in the array contains the 
//				original string.  Access to the separated fields is 1-based 
//				(the first field is in index 1, and so on).
//
// REVISION LOG:
// DATE      INIT  REVISION  COMMENT
// --------  ----  --------  ---------------------------------------------------
//
// CHANGE HISTORY:
// DATE      INIT  CHANGE DESCRIPTION
// --------  ----  -------------------------------------------------------------
// 07/15/00  jms   New file
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------

#ifndef __STRINGPARSER_H
#define __STRINGPARSER_H

#include <afxcoll.h>

const int SP_NOTFOUND = -1;

class CStringParser: public CObject
{
private:
	// data members
	CStringArray m_aStrings;
	int          m_nCount;
	char         m_cDelimiter;
	char         m_cQuoter;

	// methods
	int     ParseString();
	int     ParseStringWithQuoter();

public:
	// data members

	// ctor/dtor
	CStringParser(CString sString, char cDelimiter);
	CStringParser(CString sString, char cDelimiter, char cQuoter);
	~CStringParser();

	// methods
	void    Clear              ();
	CString GetField           (int nIndex);
	int     GetCount           () { return m_nCount;      };
	CString GetOriginalString  () { return m_aStrings.GetAt(0); };
	void    ResetOriginalString(CString sString, char cDelimiter);
	void    ResetOriginalString(CString sString, char cDelimiter, char cQuoter);
	CString FindExact          (CString sText, int* nElement, BOOL bCaseSensitive=FALSE);
	CString Find               (CString sText, int* nElement, BOOL bCaseSensitive=FALSE);
};


#endif



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I've been paid as a programmer since 1982 with experience in Pascal, and C++ (both self-taught), and began writing Windows programs in 1991 using Visual C++ and MFC. In the 2nd half of 2007, I started writing C# Windows Forms and ASP.Net applications, and have since done WPF, Silverlight, WCF, web services, and Windows services.

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