Split string in C every white space

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http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstring/strtok/

Take a look at this, and use whitespace characters as the delimiter. If you need more hints let me know.

From the website:

char * strtok ( char * str, const char * delimiters );

On a first call, the function expects a C string as argument for str, whose first character is used as the starting location to scan for tokens. In subsequent calls, the function expects a null pointer and uses the position right after the end of last token as the new starting location for scanning.

Once the terminating null character of str is found in a call to strtok, all subsequent calls to this function (with a null pointer as the first argument) return a null pointer.

Parameters

  • str
    • C string to truncate.
    • Notice that this string is modified by being broken into smaller strings (tokens).
      Alternativelly [sic], a null pointer may be specified, in which case the function continues scanning where a previous successful call to the function ended.
  • delimiters
    • C string containing the delimiter characters.
    • These may vary from one call to another.

Return Value

A pointer to the last token found in string.
A null pointer is returned if there are no tokens left to retrieve.

Example

/* strtok example */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main ()
{
  char str[] ="- This, a sample string.";
  char * pch;
  printf ("Splitting string \"%s\" into tokens:\n",str);
  pch = strtok (str," ,.-");
  while (pch != NULL)
  {
    printf ("%s\n",pch);
    pch = strtok (NULL, " ,.-");
  }
  return 0;
}

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