On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 05:11:32PM -0500, Brian Hurt wrote:
> 
> I think what you want is a split function- a function that takes a string 
> and splits it up at certan characters.  It'd have a type something like:
> val split: char -> string -> string list
>
> You'd then read an entire line, split it apart on '|'.  You could then 
> split various substrings on ';' to get the integers, etc.

This would work, and I've done it in the past. There is a split function in
the Str library that would be able to handle this.

The main problem with this is that it has to be changed a lot, and is 
error prone.  The data file that I'm parsing is changing a lot
and the line might tokenize correctly but not have the right data.  

> 
> Hope this helps.

Thank you.

-jbs

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