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strtok
| Example: strtok | String Manipulation Functions |
Returns a token from a string delimited by specified characters.
char *strtok( char *string, const char *delimiters);
| string | The string to scan. |
| delimiters | The string consisting of the character or characters that delimit tokens in the first string. |
strtok returns a token from a string delimited by specified characters. After the first invocation, pass NULL as the value of string to get the next token.
Return Values
On the first invocation, returns a pointer to the first token found in string. Each subsequent invocation with a NULL value of string returns the next token. Returns NULL when there are no more tokens to be found.
Insert the following at the beginning of a script that uses strtok:
extern char* strtok(char *token, const char *delimiter);
Strtok must be cast to a char pointer when assigning the return value, for example:
char *token = (char *)strtok(path, separators);
