how to tokenize a string in arduino - arduino

Question

i am using arduino due. what i am trying to do is to receive a string at serial. like this one:
COMSTEP 789 665 432 END
if the string starts with comstep, then to tokenize the string and get an integer array {789, 665, 432}.
is there anyway to do that?
P.S: im a noob at programming, so any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

I have a function that I wrote long ago to parse strings up in an easy manner. It is in use on several of my Arduino projects.
Sample usage:
char pinStr[3];
char valueStr[7];
int pinNumber, value;
getstrfld (parms_in, 0, 0, (char *)",", pinStr);
getstrfld (parms_in, 1, 0, (char *)",", valueStr);
pinNumber = atoi (pinStr);
value = atoi (valueStr);
The functions:
// My old stand-by to break delimited strings up.
char * getstrfld (char *strbuf, int fldno, int ofset, char *sep, char *retstr)
{
char *offset, *strptr;
int curfld;
offset = strptr = (char *)NULL;
curfld = 0;
strbuf += ofset;
while (*strbuf) {
strptr = !offset ? strbuf : offset;
offset = strpbrk ((!offset ? strbuf : offset), sep);
if (offset) {
offset++;
} else if (curfld != fldno) {
*retstr = 0;
break;
}
if (curfld == fldno) {
strncpy (retstr, strptr,
(int)(!offset ? strlen (strptr)+ 1 :
(int)(offset - strptr)));
if (offset)
retstr[offset - strptr - 1] = 0;
break;
}
curfld++;
}
return retstr;
}
// Included because strpbrk is not in the arduino gcc/g++ libraries
// Or I just could not find it :)
char * strpbrk (const char *s1, const char *s2)
{
const char *c = s2;
if (!*s1) {
return (char *) NULL;
}
while (*s1) {
for (c = s2; *c; c++) {
if (*s1 == *c)
break;
}
if (*c)
break;
s1++;
}
if (*c == '\0')
s1 = NULL;
return (char *) s1;
}

Answer 2

A light-weight approach (no strict checks on valid parses of the integers and ignoring any list elements past a fixed maximum):
char buf[32] = "COMSTEP 789 665 432 END"; // assume this has just been read
int res[8], nres = 0;
bool inlist = false;
for (char *p = strtok(buf, " "); p; p = strtok(0, " "))
if (inlist)
{
if (!strcmp(p, "END"))
{
inlist = false;
break;
}
else if (nres < sizeof(res) / sizeof(*res))
res[nres++] = atoi(p);
}
else if (!strcmp(p, "COMSTEP"))
inlist = true;
if (!inlist)
for (size_t i = 0; i < nres; ++i)
printf("%d%s", res[i], i + 1 < nres ? " " : "\n"); // do whatever