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From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.std.c,comp.lang.scheme.c,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ?????  HELP!!! what is wring with this code? ???????
Message-ID: <8649@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 7 Oct 88 09:36:12 GMT
References: <456@mrsvr.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <456@mrsvr.UUCP> ssa@mrsvr.UUCP (6607) writes:
>"test.c", line 7: warning: illegal combination of pointer and integer, op =
>#include <strings.h>
>	while((tokptr=strtok(strptr," \t")) != NULL ){

<strings.h> doesn't declare strtok, so it is assumed to return int
which is not compatible with the char * being assigned into.
<strings.h> was invented by Berkeley without regard for existing
practice.  <string.h> is the official standard header for the
str* functions, and it does declare strtok.