Usage:

gettok(items, number, delimiter)

e.g, gettok("apples|oranges", 1, "|") returns apples

e.g, gettok("apples|oranges", 2, "|") returns oranges

e.g, gettok("apples|oranges", 0, "|") returns 2

#Uncomment following line on Linux systems
##!/usr/bin/python

# Usage:
# gettok(items, number, delimiter)
# e.g, gettok("apples|oranges", 1, "|") returns apples
# e.g, gettok("apples|oranges", 2, "|") returns oranges
# e.g, gettok("apples|oranges", 0, "|") returns 2
def gettok(items, num, delim):
    tokens = 0
    i = 0
    while (i < len(items)):
        if (items[i] == delim):
            tokens += 1
        i += 1
    if (num == 0): return tokens+1
    i = 1
    items1 = 0
    pos = 0
    item = ""
    while (i <= tokens+1):
        if (items1 == 0): 
            cur = items[pos:]
            delpos = items.find(delim)
            items1 += 1
        elif (items1 > 0):
            pos = delpos+1
            cur = items[pos:]
            delpos += cur.find(delim)+1
        item = items[pos:delpos]
        if (i == tokens+1): item = cur 
        if (i == num):  return item
        i += 1