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CRTL, strsep
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Separates strings.
Format
#include <string.h>
char *strsep (char **stringp, char *delim);
The strsep function has variants named _strsep32 and _strsep64
for use with 32-bit and 64-bit pointer sizes, respectively.
stringp
A pointer to a pointer to a character string.
delim
A pointer to a string containing characters to be used as
delimiters.
The strsep function locates in stringp, the first occurrence of
any character in delim (or the terminating '\0' character) and
replaces it with a '\0'. The location of the next character after
the delimiter character (or NULL, if the end of the string is
reached) is stored in the stringp argument. The original value of
the stringp argument is returned.
You can detect an "empty" field; one caused by two adjacent
delimiter characters, by comparing the location referenced by
the pointer returned in the stringp argument to '\0'.
The stringp argument is initially NULL, strsep returns NULL.
x The address of the string pointed to by
stringp.
NULL Indicates that stringp is NULL.
The following example uses strsep to parse a string, containing
token delimited by white space, into an argument vector:
char **ap, **argv[10], *inputstring;
for (ap = argv; (*ap = strsep(&inputstring, " \t")) != NULL;)
if (**ap != '\0')
++ap;