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STRSEP

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
RETURN VALUE
NOTES
CONFORMING TO
SEE ALSO

NAME

strsep ? extract token from string

SYNOPSIS

#include <string.h>

char *strsep(char **stringp, const char *delim);

DESCRIPTION

The strsep() function returns the next token from the string stringp which is delimited by delim. The token is terminated with a ‘\0’ character and stringp is updated to point past the token.

RETURN VALUE

The strsep() function returns a pointer to the token, or NULL if delim is not found in stringp.

NOTES

The strsep() function was introduced as a replacement for strtok(), since the latter cannot handle empty fields. (However, strtok() conforms to ANSI-C and hence is more portable.)

CONFORMING TO

BSD 4.4

SEE ALSO

index(3), memchr(3), rindex(3), strchr(3), strpbrk(3), strspn(3), strstr(3), strtok(3)


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