[Lazarus] reading FORTRAN-style input in Lazarus

[Sven Barth]

Am 05.08.2011 16:39, schrieb 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.

That's why I said "starting point" ^^

> Anyway, good find -- original poster might find this procedure useable.
>

Might not as you can't use length and precision declarators as with 
Format. And especially the first one would be what the original poster 
needs.

>> 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.
>

Huh O.o It works here. Can somebody else that link, please?

Alternatively you can try this link: 
http://www.torry.net/authorsmore.php?id=1441

This seems to be a newer version (1.7 instead of 1.0), but the license 
isn't mentioned anywhere there... (I haven't looked inside the download 
though)

Regards,
Sven