Place words of a string into an array of strings - c programming

Question

I am trying to get a function to split a string containing several words which are separated by 1 or more spaces and put each word without any spaces into an index of an array of strings.

I have been googling it for a while, it seems I need strtok but I am a bit clueless, would someone please shed some light?

Possible duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/12582955/… — maths-help-seeker
– maths-help-seeker, Commented Oct 2, 2012 at 22:44
not really, I am not looking to remove white spaces, I am more concerned about obtaining the words — PhillToronto
– PhillToronto, Commented Oct 3, 2012 at 15:48

andro1d · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-02 22:46:57Z

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/* strtok example */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main ()
{
  char str[] ="- This, a sample string.";
  char * pch;
  printf ("Splitting string \"%s\" into tokens:\n",str);
  pch = strtok (str," ");
  while (pch != NULL)
  {
    printf ("%s\n",pch);
    pch = strtok (NULL, " ");
  }
  return 0;
}

answered Oct 2, 2012 at 22:46

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2 Comments

PhillToronto Over a year ago

thank you @andro1d this a good start. Am I able to tell strtok to ignore \n and \t? Eg.: - This, a sample \t string. to produce outcome: - This, a sample string

PhillToronto Over a year ago

As it is right now it places the \t alone in a line. thank you :)

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