Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:49:08 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: unga888@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to split a C string by a string? Message-ID: <87od2mn56z.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <417898.61773.qm@web57005.mail.re3.yahoo.com> (Unga's message of "Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:32:56 -0700 (PDT)") References: <417898.61773.qm@web57005.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:32:56 -0700 (PDT), Unga <unga888@yahoo.com> wrote: > --- On Wed, 9/17/08, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: >> From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> >> Subject: Re: How to split a C string by a string? >> To: unga888@yahoo.com >> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 6:17 PM >> On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:45:46 -0700 (PDT), Unga >> <unga888@yahoo.com> wrote: >> > Hi all >> > >> > I'm writing an C application on FreeBSD 7+. I need to split a >> > string by another string (ie. the delimiter is "xxx") similar to >> > strtok split a string by a single char. Is there a standard >> > function or is there a FreeBSD functions for this? >> >> You can use strstr() to look for the "xxx" delimited and split that >> that point: [snip sample code] > > Thank you very much for the reply. That is, there is no existing split > function. So I got to write to my own :) Yes, you have to roll our own. The standard C library doesn't have string splitting functions with a string as delimiter. It includes strtok(), strspn() and strcspn(), but these work with character sets as delimiters, not strings...
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