Re: How do I read name/value pairs from incoming stream in VB6

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Actually I posted that "Each set is seperated by a space." Set meaning
a name/value pair. I failed to mention that the values could be
anything, including an error messge. The response that was given
assumed that the value part of the set wouldn't have spaces. That was
an incorrect assumption but still led to a response that helped get me
along to the solution. Seems Karl Peterson ought to take a chill pill.

Bob O`Bob wrote:
Karl E. Peterson wrote:

It *seems* there ought to be a more *appropriate* way??? WTH does that
mean? What do you find inappropriate about finding the first occurance of a
documented delimiter, adn splitting the string based on that?

Wow...


I see people who believe programming is "Magic" all the time.

In fact this is *precisely* the same thing as when they ask for code
to separate a string where commas appear, and then later come back and
complain that it "doesn't work" when their data contains quoted strings
with embedded commas. Whereas if they'd said it was a CSV file in the
first place /maybe/ someone would have known to offer the right "magic."


Unfortunately, that *is* human nature, and as someone who actually would
like to make programming more approachable for 'ordinary' folks - those
who don't necessarily have the stickler-for-detail personality type most
of us engineer-types do, I'm stuck with being frustrated a lot, and have
to pretty much "just get over it" or I may never be able to accomplish
even my own goals.





Bob
--
Comcast cable is running a TV commercials recently where the theme is
"Stupid Fast" and that's ALL computers are. Most people don't understand
that computers are ABSOLUTELY NOT SMART in any way, sense, or form ...
just fast. Really, /really/ fast. Only the software can possibly be called
smart, and then only if those who built it had some smarts to work with.
But for decades, the PR for computers has been about "intelligence", or
about computers "knowing" something, and so on. It's our own foot.

.

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