splitting a string

[sde]

i'm trying to figure out how to do this in Small, .. but since it is similar to C , then maybe i can find out from how C can do it.

i have a string that contains this:

apple=fruit

i need to take that string, and break it up into 2 other strings. var_1 and var_2

if it's not obvious, i want apple in var_1 , and fruit in var_2

any ideas?

for(i=0;i<=5;++i) {
var_1=blah[i];
}

?

[DesertWolf]

First we need to know if your "string" var is really a str variable or a char array pretending to be a string variable.
If it is a true str variable there should be a string fuction to get part of a string from the start of the string for a set number of characters or untill you get to a defined character such as your "=" character, If you are using a char array then I would probably do something similar to what Vlad gave you, looking for the "=" character to give you the end point index number of your first word.

[sdeming]

Mike,

In shell it's really quite simple:[SHELL]string=value
OIFS=$IFS
IFS="="
set $string
var1=$1
var2=$2
IFS=$OIFS
echo $var1
echo $var2
[/SHELL]

[sdeming]

Okay, now I need to RTFM...

I thought you wrote SHELL, not SMALL...

At any rate, in C take a look at strtok(), I'm not sure if it is in Small or not but the gist of it goes like this:

char *s = "string=value";

char *l1=strtok(s, "=");
char *l2=strtok(NULL, "=");

printf("%s\n%s\n", l1, l2);