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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting perl newbie: how to extract an unknown word from a string Post 302177797 by wolwy_pete on Sunday 23rd of March 2008 10:41:11 AM
Old 03-23-2008
thankx very much guys,
it worked, the split function was quite useful.
 

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DXmGetLocaleString(3X)													    DXmGetLocaleString(3X)

NAME
DXmGetLocaleString - Provides locale-sensitive Motif compound string version of Toolkit ASCII default values. SYNOPSIS
XmString DXmGetLocaleString( I18nContext context, char *string, I18nWordType word_type ); PARAMETERS
Reserved for future use. (Null value passed.) Null-terminated string specifying the ASCII string value whose locale sensitive version is to be retrieved (for example, the string "OK"). Specifies the type (part of speech) of a word in the string, as indicated by one of the following values: ------------------------------------------ Value Description ------------------------------------------ I18NADJECTIVE The word is an adjective. I18NADVERB The word is an adverb. I18NNOUN The word is a noun. I18NVERB The word is a verb. ------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION
The DXmGetLocaleString routine provides a locale-sensitive Motif compound string version of Toolkit ASCII default values, such as "OK" or "Cancel". You can specify the part of speech (adjective, adverb, verb, or noun) associated with each word in the string. RETURN VALUES
A pointer to the Motif compound string containing the value. DXmGetLocaleString(3X)
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