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From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
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Subject: Re: is there an easier way?
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On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 05:23:33PM -0600, 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);
>   }
> }
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
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> Tim Daneliuk     tundra@tundraware.com
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	Giving up kmail.....  this works too, thanks.  But only with 
	a fixed buffer --obv'ly 256 in this case.   still pondering... .
> 

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