SAVETOKEN() Saves the incremental tokenizer environment to a variable ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Syntax SAVETOKEN() --> cTokenEnvironment Returns The character string returned contains the internal environment for the incremental tokenizer. Description By saving and later restoring the internal tokenizer environment, an interlocking implementation of the incremental tokenizer is made simple. The complete, previously initialized string is saved, as are the internal pointers and the corresponding file areas. This string serves as a return value for SAVETOKEN(), regardless of the later restoration of the tokenizer environment using RESTTOKEN(). Note . The returned value is only valid for the currently running program because it is concerned with internal pointers. Examples . Here is an incremental tokenizer. Text is broken into individual lines, and each line is broken into words: TOKENINIT(@cTextString, CHR(13) + CHR(10), 2) DO WHILE .NOT. TOKENEND() cLine := TOKENNEXT(cTextString) WORD(cLine) ENDDO . The function then breaks the lines into words: FUNCTION WORD(cLine) cOldEnv := SAVETOKEN() TOKENINIT(@cLine, " .,-:;") cWord := TOKENNEXT() DO WHILE .NOT. TOKENEND() cWord := TOKENNEXT(cLine) ? cWord ENDDO RESTTOKEN(cOldEnv) RETURN("")
See Also: RESTTOKEN() TOKENINIT() TOKENNEXT()