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From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.databases
Subject: Re: gotcha in strtok(3)
Message-ID: <2722@haddock.ISC.COM>
Date: 26 Feb 88 19:53:13 GMT
References: <45@vsi.UUCP>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <45@vsi.UUCP> friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
>I'd like to relate a gotcha that could drive you crazy.  We often use
>strtok(3) to run through a PATH-type variable to pick apart the individual
>pieces.  [But it scribbles in your array, which can be a problem.]

Another problem is that strtok() doesn't distinguish between "/bin:/etc" and
"/bin::/etc", so it's not really appropriate for parsing PATH or /etc/passwd.

For the above and other reasons, I never use strtok().

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint