Question

I’m quite unfamiliar with C. A comma sepearted string comes in and I need to untangle it. Some bits correspond to numerical values, others to words etc.

Input

char str_in;

str_in = "$GPRMC,114353.000,A,6016.3245,N,02458.3270,E,0.01,0,A*69";

Output

#include <string.h>
float lat, lon, time;

time = 114353.000;
lat = 60+(1/60)*16.3245; //Conversion to decimal degrees
lon = 024+(1/60)*58.3270;

All the spacings remain unchanged. The section I have struggled with is extracting the first two/three digits from the latitude/longitude and treating them differently. Can anyone help?

Answer 1

Uses strtok. Here’s a reference:

http://www.metalshell.com/source_code/31/String_Tokenizer.html

/* strtok example by [e-mail]
 *
 * This is an example on string tokenizing
 *
 * 02/19/2002
 *
 * http://www.metalshell.com
 *
 */

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
        int x = 1;
        char str[]="this:is:a:test:of:string:tokenizing";
        char *str1;

        /* print what we have so far */
        printf("String: %s\n", str);

        /* extract first string from string sequence */
        str1 = strtok(str, ":");

        /* print first string after tokenized */
        printf("%i: %s\n", x, str1);

        /* loop until finishied */
        while (1)
        {
                /* extract string from string sequence */
                str1 = strtok(NULL, ":");

                /* check if there is nothing else to extract */
                if (str1 == NULL)
                {
                        printf("Tokenizing complete\n");
                        exit(0);
                }
                /* print string after tokenized */
                printf("%i: %s\n", x, str1);
                x++;
        }
        return 0;
}