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From: cuuee@warwick.ac.uk (Sean Legassick)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Parsing lists containing numeric ranges
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Date: 19 Jul 90 14:50:33 GMT
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Does anyone know of a C routine that will expand strings containing
numbers and ranges into a list of strings, or will give you the
numbers one at a time.

e.g. A function 'expand_range(char *string, char *buffer);' which on
     being given a pointer to the string "1,3-6,9-11,15" would place in
     buffer the string "1,3,4,5,6,9,10,11,15" (perhaps also having
     an integer argument for size of buffer so that a spurious '9-9999'
     didn't corrupt all data memory!)

or   Two functions, 'int expand_range_start(char *str);' and 'int
     expand_range_next(char *str);' which would return the expanded
     list of numbers one at a time.

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