REST API arguments - is there a better way?

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Hi @metis,

I thought I was the only “old school” strtok() guy here. I also use strtok to parse XML structure reading an RSS feed based on the double-quote characters. My code depends on the order of the parameters, but it could be rewritten easily to use the values instead. The string to parse looks like:

<header param1="value1" param2="value2" .../>

My code looks like:

    int fieldn = 1;
    char * p = strtok(dataStr, "\"");
    while (p != NULL) {
        //get the values for 
        if (fieldn == 2) {  // value for 1st param
           ...
        } else if (fieldn == 6) {  // value for 3rd param (skip 2nd)
           ...
        } else if (fieldn == 8) {   // value for 4th
           ...
        } else if ( fieldn == 10) {  // and the 5th
           ...
        }
        fieldn++;
        p = strtok(NULL, "\"");
    }
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