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From: keith@portia.Stanford.EDU (keith farrar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: strtok() bug in MPW C 3.1
Summary: it returns EOF for null string!!!
Keywords: MPW strtok
Message-ID: <1990Sep28.003431.4027@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 28 Sep 90 00:34:31 GMT
Reply-To: keith@markets.UUCP (Keith Farrar)
Followup-To: keith@markets.amix.com
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Organization: AMIX Corp., Palo Alto, CA
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Last night, I had a text parser I wrote run amok, because strtok() was 
returning EOF when it reached the end of the string (i.e. it was fed a 
null string).  I suspect that it also has broken some serial comm code
we are porting to the mac. The documented convention is for it then to
return a NULL pointer - according to my ansi guides and my MPW C manual.
 
Has this been brought up before?
Is there a fix available? 
 
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| Keith Farrar                                                       |
| AMIX Corporation                                                   |
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