+ /* it's actually legal to pass an empty list */
+ if (strlen(ltok) == 0)
+ continue;
+
+ /* get the start pos */
+ ntok = strsep(<ok, "-");
+ if (ntok == NULL) {
+ bb_error_msg
+ ("internal error: ntok is null for start pos!?\n");
+ } else if (strlen(ntok) == 0) {
+ s = BOL;
+ } else {
+ s = xatoi_u(ntok);
+ /* account for the fact that arrays are zero based, while
+ * the user expects the first char on the line to be char #1 */
+ if (s != 0)
+ s--;
+ }
+
+ /* get the end pos */
+ ntok = strsep(<ok, "-");
+ if (ntok == NULL) {
+ e = NON_RANGE;
+ } else if (strlen(ntok) == 0) {
+ e = EOL;
+ } else {
+ e = xatoi_u(ntok);
+ /* if the user specified and end position of 0, that means "til the
+ * end of the line */
+ if (e == 0)
+ e = EOL;
+ e--; /* again, arrays are zero based, lines are 1 based */
+ if (e == s)
+ e = NON_RANGE;
+ }
+
+ /* if there's something left to tokenize, the user passed
+ * an invalid list */
+ if (ltok)
+ bb_error_msg_and_die("invalid byte or field list");
+
+ /* add the new list */
+ cut_lists = xrealloc(cut_lists, sizeof(struct cut_list) * (++nlists));
+ cut_lists[nlists-1].startpos = s;
+ cut_lists[nlists-1].endpos = e;
+ }
+
+ /* make sure we got some cut positions out of all that */
+ if (nlists == 0)
+ bb_error_msg_and_die("missing list of positions");
+
+ /* now that the lists are parsed, we need to sort them to make life
+ * easier on us when it comes time to print the chars / fields / lines
+ */
+ qsort(cut_lists, nlists, sizeof(struct cut_list), cmpfunc);