// Useful function to split a string by symbol
// Usage:
// new destination[3][16];
// split( "my.source.string", destination, '.', 3 );
// Now destination is:
// [0] => "my"
// [1] => "source"
// [2] => "string"
stock split(const strsrc[], const strdest[][], delimiter, destlen)
{
new i, li;
new aNum;
new len;
while(i <= strlen(strsrc))
{
if(strsrc[i] == delimiter || i == strlen(strsrc))
{
len = strmid(strdest[aNum], strsrc, li, i, 128);
strdest[aNum][len] = 0;
li = i+1;
aNum++;
}
i++;
}
if (aNum < destlen) {
for (new j=aNum; j < destlen; j++) {
strdest[j][0] = 0;
}
}
return 1;
}
stock stringToDate( const dateAsString[], &day, &month, &year ) {
new dest[3][5];
split( dateAsString, dest, 3 );
day = strval( dest[0] );
month = strval( dest[1] );
year = strval( dest[2] );
}
// How to use:
...
new day, month, year;
stringToDate( "11.06.2015", day, month, year );
// now day == 11, month == 6, year == 2015
...
sscanf(datestr, "p<.>ddd", day, month, year);