tokenizing on a string not a character

[gregIML]

Hi,

I'm trying to tokenize a text file or maybe an xml file depending on what is possible.

Ideally i'll have an xml with

<date>the date</date>
<title>the title</title>
<content>the content</content>

Is it possible to tokenize on the end tags of each field. i.e </*>

so far i can only find ways to tokenize on individual characters using the strtok() function, not a string of characters.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks in advance

Greg IML

[BlueKai]

Is there a reason you're not using DOM functions?

[krotkruton]

Without any code, your question is kinda broad so it's hard to answer.

You could try using strrchr.

This way, you can find the first occurance of "</", and then use substr to break it up. It would take a bit of work to to correctly parse a file with that, but I think I've done it before for some bizarre project.
Depending on what you want to do, you could find the location of the first "<", then check to see if that index + 1 is a "/"... and it gets confusing.

Also, you could find the first intance of "<" and then check to see if the next character is a "/", which would tell you if it's a close tag. If it is a close tag and you don't want it, then you could just discard it.

Otherwise, look up DOM functions like BlueKai said.