Re: reading variables from string similar to C function sscanf

On Apr 6, 3:58 pm, nils.toenis...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> beeing new to delphi / pascal i am searching a possibility to read
> variables from a string just the same way you use readln to read
> variables from a textfile - equivalent to the C function sscanf.
>
> I want to extract data from a textfile. When a certain word is found
> a the beginning of the current line then  i want to read the following
> data (three double variables) in the line into variables.

What is the format of the data?
How would you write it in C?
There is no built-in equivalent to sscanf in Pascal. Technically, C
doesn't have a built-in function either. sscanf is part of a library.
Delphi probably has such a function in a library somewhere - I don't
know Delphi.

I'd do a look where I look for the location of the "trigger" word
starting at position 1 of the record. Then the reading of the three
doubles depends on how they are represented in the record.