Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:30:00 -0600 From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: is there an easier way? Message-ID: <47BA14F8.4060109@tundraware.com> In-Reply-To: <47BA1375.2010108@tundraware.com> References: <20080218230351.GA28000@thought.org> <47BA1375.2010108@tundraware.com>
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Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> Gary Kline wrote:
>> To my fellow C nerds,
>>
>> It's been a great manny years since I wrote this appended
>> snippet. Now I can't remember why (of if ) I need all the
>> strcpy() calls. Is there a simpler, more logical way of
>> printing a bunch of string by snipping off the left-most?
>>
>> In short,, can anyone 'splain why strtok needs all this?
>>
>> tia,
>>
>> gary
>>
>>
>
> I don't think you need the copies. This works just as well:
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <string.h>
>
> main()
> {
> char *bp, *tok;
> char *delim=" ", s1[256]="abc def ghi jkl mno.";
>
> bp = s1; /* Now both point to the literal string to be tokenized */
>
> while ((tok = strtok(bp, delim)) != NULL)
> {
> bp = NULL;
> printf("tok = [%s]\n", tok);
> }
> }
>
Ooops ... wasn't paying attention. While the printed output is the same, doing
it this way is destructive to the original s1 string - which may matter (or not)...
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