Separate Words
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Function: list SeparateWords(string src,string separators,string spacers);
Returns a list that is src broken into a list, discarding separators, keeping spacers, discards any null values generated. Same as LSL funtion llParseString2List, but not limited to 8 spacers or separators.
Thus substitute a call to the llParseString2List function by a call to SeparateWords whenever you have more than 8 separators or more than 8 spacers.
• string | src | – | source string | |
• list | separators | – | separators to be discarded | |
• list | spacers | – | spacers to be kept |
Specification
list applyLlParseString2List(list sources, list separators, list spacers) { list words = []; integer lenSources = llGetListLength(sources); integer i = 0; for (; i < lenSources; ++i) { string source = llList2String(sources, i); words += llParseString2List(source, separators, spacers); } return words; } // Divide a source string into words // See the chars between separators or spacers, and each spacer, as a word // Never see the empty string as a word list SeparateWords(string src, list separators, list spacers) { // Begin with all chars in one word list words = (list)src; // List the chars between spacers, and each spacer, as a word integer lenSpacers = llGetListLength(spacers); integer i = 0; for (; i < lenSpacers; i += 8) { list some = llList2List(spacers, i, i + 7); words = applyLlParseString2List(words, [], some); } // Discard the separators after letting the separators separate words integer lenSeparators = llGetListLength(separators); for (i = 0; i < lenSeparators; i += 8) { list some = llList2List(separators, i, i + 7); words = applyLlParseString2List(words, some, []); } // Succeed return words; }
Example
Example to separate this src:
42 0.99 \"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000\" [abc, def] \"xyz\\\\\"zyx\" <0, 1, 2, 3> // source literals
Says:
0: 42
1: 0.99
2: "
3: 00000000
4: -
5: 0000
6: -
7: 0000
8: -
9: 0000
10: -
11: 000000000000
12: "
13: [
14: abc
15: def
16: ]
17: "
18: xyz
19: \
20: \
21: "
22: zyx
23: "
24: <
25: 0
26: 1
27: 2
28: 3
29: >
30: /
31: /
32: source
33: literals
OK
string lf = "\n"; string quote = "\""; string escape = "\\"; list spacers = [quote, "(", ")", "<", ">", "[", "]", "/", "+", "-", "*", "%", escape]; list separators() { string tab = llUnescapeURL("%09"); // != "\t" string cr = llUnescapeURL("%0D"); // != "\r" return [tab, lf, cr, " ", ",", ";"]; } default { state_entry() { string chars = "42 0.99 \"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000\" [abc, def] \"xyz\\\\\"zyx\" <0, 1, 2, 3> // source literals"; list words = SeparateWords(chars, separators(), spacers); integer lenWords = llGetListLength(words); integer i = 0; for (; i < lenWords; ++i) { llOwnerSay((string) i + ": " + llList2String(words, i)); } llOwnerSay("OK"); } }
See Also
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