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STRTOK(3)             DragonFly Library Functions Manual             STRTOK(3)

NAME

strtok, strtok_r -- string tokens

LIBRARY

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

#include <string.h> char * strtok(char * restrict str, const char * restrict sep); char * strtok_r(char * restrict str, const char * restrict sep, char ** restrict last);

DESCRIPTION

This interface is obsoleted by strsep(3). The strtok() function is used to isolate sequential tokens in a null- terminated string, str. These tokens are separated in the string by at least one of the characters in sep. The first time that strtok() is called, str should be specified; subsequent calls, wishing to obtain further tokens from the same string, should pass a null pointer instead. The separator string, sep, must be supplied each time, and may change between calls. The implementation will behave as if no library function calls strtok(). The strtok_r() function is a reentrant version of strtok(). The context pointer last must be provided on each call. The strtok_r() function may also be used to nest two parsing loops within one another, as long as separate context pointers are used. The strtok() and strtok_r() functions return a pointer to the beginning of each subsequent token in the string, after replacing the token itself with a NUL character. When no more tokens remain, a null pointer is returned.

EXAMPLES

The following uses strtok_r() to parse two strings using separate contexts: char test[80], blah[80]; char *sep = "\\/:;=-"; char *word, *phrase, *brkt, *brkb; strcpy(test, "This;is.a:test:of=the/string\\tokenizer-function."); for (word = strtok_r(test, sep, &brkt); word; word = strtok_r(NULL, sep, &brkt)) { strcpy(blah, "blah:blat:blab:blag"); for (phrase = strtok_r(blah, sep, &brkb); phrase; phrase = strtok_r(NULL, sep, &brkb)) { printf("So far we're at %s:%s\n", word, phrase); } }

SEE ALSO

memchr(3), strchr(3), strcspn(3), strpbrk(3), strrchr(3), strsep(3), strspn(3), strstr(3), wcstok(3)

STANDARDS

The strtok() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9899:1990 (``ISO C90'').

AUTHORS

Wes Peters, Softweyr LLC <wes@softweyr.com> Based on the FreeBSD 3.0 implementation.

BUGS

The System V strtok(), if handed a string containing only delimiter characters, will not alter the next starting point, so that a call to strtok() with a different (or empty) delimiter string may return a non-NULL value. Since this implementation always alters the next starting point, such a sequence of calls would always return NULL. DragonFly 5.1 February 22, 2018 DragonFly 5.1

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