Joined: 20 Oct 2006 Posts: 1411 Topics: 26 Location: germany
Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 6:05 am Post subject:
what language do you plan on using for your solution? pick one!
This seems like a school problem.
I assume your expected output is:
Code:
1st I
2nd am a
3rd very
4th Good person
you actually have two delimiters. comma and double-quotes, which override the normal comma delimiter.
define a one dimensional table to contain double-quote positions, i.e. low-high range for each group
define a two dimensional table to handle the groups and sub-groups, i.e. primary dimension would contain groups, secondary dimension would contain the UNSTRING/PARSE of a group that was not bounded by double-quotes.
build a table of double-quote positions
UNSTRING or PARSE the input by the double-quotes, keeping track of the number of characters in each group
if the group came from a double-quote front & back delimited section of the input, change comma to space
if group did not have a front&back double-quote, UNSTRING/PARSE the group into subgroups delimted by comma, and space out the group
move non-space groups, sub-groups to final definitions
_________________ Dick Brenholtz
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