Use of strtok, an easy example.

NAME

     strtok, strtok_r -- string tokens   

LIBRARY

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)   

SYNOPSIS

     #include <stdio.h>

     char *      strtok(char *restrict str, const char *restrict sep);

Example C Code

#include <stdio.h>

#include <string.h>

int main () {

char test[80], blah[80];

char *sep = "\\/:;=-";

char *word, *phrase, *brkt, *brkb;

strcpy(test, "This;is.a:test:of=the/string\\tokenizer-function.");

for (word = strtok(test, sep);word; word = strtok(NULL, sep)) {

printf("string is: %s\n", word);

}

return 0;

}