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Date:      Fri, 26 Feb 1999 14:42:22 -0500 (EST)
From:      bright@cygnus.rush.net
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject:   docs/10284: spelling error on strtok man page
Message-ID:  <199902261942.OAA74903@bright.fx.genx.net>

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>Number:         10284
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       incorrect use of escaping in man page
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Feb 26 11:40:00 PST 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Alfred Perlstein
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
HotJobs
>Environment:

4.0-current

>Description:

strtok man page has \n, \\, instead what i think is correct "\e"
for proper escaping, the code pasted into a program doesn't work.

>How-To-Repeat:

man 3 strtok

>Fix:
	

Index: strtok.3
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/lib/libc/string/strtok.3,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -u -r1.3 strtok.3
--- strtok.3	1999/01/19 23:42:44	1.3
+++ strtok.3	1999/02/26 19:32:23
@@ -111,10 +111,10 @@
 to parse two strings using separate contexts:
 .Bd -literal
 char test[80], blah[80];
-char *sep = "\\/:;=-";
+char *sep = "\e\e/:;=-";
 char *word, *phrase, *brkt, *brkb;
 
-strcpy(test, "This;is.a:test:of=the/string\\tokenizer-function.");
+strcpy(test, "This;is.a:test:of=the/string\e\etokenizer-function.");
 
 for (word = strtok_r(test, sep, &brkt);
      word;
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@
          phrase;
          phrase = strtok_r(NULL, sep, &brkb))
     {
-        printf("So far we're at %s:%s\n", word, phrase);
+        printf("So far we're at %s:%s\en", word, phrase);
     }
 }
 .Ed

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