[Ilugc] strtok

From: kumanna@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Adayapalam Appaiah Kumaraswamy)
Date: Tue Jul 20 13:50:01 2004

Viveka Nathan K wrote:

Hi..

   By using strtok(), if I read the /etc/passwd file with delimiter ":",
   I am not getting expected result.  For example, if a line contains

   rpm:x:37:37::/var/lib/rpm:/bin/bash

   the '::' is read at once instead of twice.
   Is there any other way to read data with delimiter ?

Thanks,

I worked around this, using a dirty trick!

I used strdup to create an exact copy of this string (say x) to x2.
Then, call strtok with x. Now, whenever you get a token, the separator
would be x2[token - x - 1].

Please tell me if that worked.

Kumar

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