message parsing

Other than parsing to list and back, is there a way to split string message into two part at a praticular character so that can they them be assigned to the appropriat variable type. The phrase contains a name and a vector locaton, both of unknown lenght. The one common denominator is the "< >" enclosing the vector.

Thanks, Mod

If you can use a special character as a divider that won't occur in the name, you could do it. Let's say you use the | character, so the string is namexyz|<vector>

integer barPos = llSubStringIndex(encryptedString, "|");
string name = llGetSubString(encryptedString, 0, barPos - 1);
vector position = (vector)llGetSubString(encryptedString, barPos + 1, -1);

Basically, find the position of the unique delimiter, then everything before that is one of your data items, and everything after that is the other data item. If the pattern is longer than 1 character, then you'll have to replace barPos + 1 with the strlen of the pattern string, to skip over the correct number of characters.

Assuming the string is something like this: "Damien Took <128,128,75>"

     integer pos;
     string name;
     vector location;

     string input = "Damien Took <128,128,75>";

     // First, we find the position of the vector
     pos = llSubStringIndex(input, "<"); 
     location = (vector)llGetSubString(input,pos,-1); // Gets your vector from the string
     name = llGetSubString(input,0,pos-1); // Gets the name from the string

I am a bit slower
This is slightly different because it assumes that you have no delimeter and only one name and one vector in the string.

Thanks Ziggy and Damien. Both methods worked perfectly, and you got me out of another fix.

Mod