[Lazarus] reading FORTRAN-style input in Lazarus

[Alexander Klenin]

On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 01:26, Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Am 05.08.2011 15:06, schrieb Marco van de Voort:
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 08:55:39AM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>>>
>>> A few months ago I was reading lots of SNMP MIBs (sming format), and
>>> wrote a parser using a Meta-2 derivative. However in the general case,
>>> and particularly for line-oriented input, it's probably a job for either
>>> regexes or an (as yet unwritten) equivalent to format() etc. However,
>>> error recovery (when a line departs from the accepted format part-way
>>> through) is not going to be easy.
>>
>> sscanf's like constructs are also a possibility. ARRAY OF CONST is strong
>> enough to implement it.
>
> And there seems to be already a starting point:
> http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/sscanf.html

It is based on "array of pointer", not "array of const".
I have no doubts that the former is possible -- my question was about
the latter.
Anyway, good find -- original poster might find this procedure useable.

> Also someone already has implemented a scanf port for Delphi that's based on
> "array of const" though the license isn't suitable for FPC:
> http://reocities.com/siliconvalley/grid/9828/Delphi/scanf_d.html
>

This link doesnot work for me.

-- 
Alexander S. Klenin