[Tutor] how to parse a multiple character words from plaintext

[John Gunderman]

I am looking to parse a plaintext from a document. However, I am confused about the actual methodology of it. This is because some of the words will be multiple digits or characters. However, I don't know the length of the words before the parse. Is there a way to somehow have open() grab something until it sees a /t or ' '? I was thinking I could have it count ahead the number of spaces till the stopping point and then parse till that point using read(), but that seems sort of inefficient. Is there a better way to pull this off? Thanks in advance.

John




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