"strtok"- String Token function in Vugen

String Token function come into picture when we get server response in the given below format

Account~IRA~1234567890~Internal~Saving~Bank Of America

Account~AAA~4567891230~External~Current~Bank Of America

This is responses of requests which returns a list of accounts, and suppose i need to capture third value 1234567890 from these types of responses.

Or we need to capture values from the string like

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Follow the given below steps to get this done

I am taking server response value as Account~IRA~1234567890~Internal~Saving~Bank Of America

I will show you how to save third value in a variable which is having different left and right boundary at each iteration

First correlate this value in a parameter Param_value

Follow the given below steps to get this done

·         Define separator value in globals.h

·         Define token string in globals.h

char separators[] = "~";

//Here in my example separator is ~ Account~IRA~1234567890~Internal~Saving~Bank Of America

char * token;

·         After capturing response in Paran_Value by giving Account~ as left boundary and ~Bank Of America as right boundary, place the given below functions in script

Captured value would be IRA~1234567890~Internal~Saving

   

 token = (char *)strtok(path, separators); // Get the first token

if (!token)

         {

              lr_output_message ("No tokens found in string!");

              return( -1 );

       }

       while (token != NULL )  // While valid tokens are returned

     {

              lr_output_message ("%s", token );          

              token = (char *)strtok(NULL, separators); // Get the next token

      }

·         Output of this function would be given below

Action.c(17): IRA

Action.c(17): 1234567890

Action.c(17): Internal

Action.c(17): Saving

·         If we want to save 123456790in any string then this can be done by modifying the while loop and defining some parameters

1.       Define given 2 parameters in action block

                                                                                          char * var ;

                                                                                           int i=1;

2.       Then use the modified while loop given below

   token = (char *)strtok(path, separators); // Get the first token

if (!token)

 {

              lr_output_message ("No tokens found in string!");

              return( -1 );

       }

       while (token != NULL )  // While valid tokens are returned

 {

         lr_output_message ("%s", token );

 if(i==2)

    var=token;

  i++;

  token = (char *)strtok(NULL, separators); // Get the next token

       }

3.       123456790 will be save in var  which can be passed further.