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NAME
       strtok, strtok_r - extract tokens from strings

SYNOPSIS
       #include 

       char *strtok(char *str, const char *delim);

       char *strtok_r(char *str, const char *delim, char **saveptr);

   Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

       strtok_r(): _SVID_SOURCE || _BSD_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE ||
       _XOPEN_SOURCE

DESCRIPTION
       The strtok() function parses a string into a sequence  of  tokens.   On
       the  first call to strtok() the string to be parsed should be specified
       in str.	In each subsequent call that should parse the same string, str
       should be NULL.

       The  delim  argument  specifies	a  set	of characters that delimit the
       tokens in the parsed string.  The caller may specify different  strings
       in delim in successive calls that parse the same string.

       Each  call  to  strtok()  returns a pointer to a null-terminated string
       containing the next token.  This string does not include the delimiting
       character.  If no more tokens are found, strtok() returns NULL.

       A sequence of two or more contiguous delimiter characters in the parsed
       string is considered to be a single delimiter.  Delimiter characters at
       the  start  or  end  of	the  string are ignored.  Put another way: the
       tokens returned by strtok() are always non-empty strings.

       The strtok_r() function is a reentrant version strtok().   The  saveptr
       argument  is  a pointer to a char * variable that is used internally by
       strtok_r() in order to maintain context between successive  calls  that
       parse the same string.

       On  the	first call to strtok_r(), str should point to the string to be
       parsed, and the value of saveptr is ignored.  In subsequent calls,  str
       should  be  NULL,  and  saveptr	should be unchanged since the previous
       call.

       Different strings may be parsed concurrently using sequences  of  calls
       to strtok_r() that specify different saveptr arguments.

RETURN VALUE
       The  strtok()  and  strtok_r()  functions  return a pointer to the next
       token, or NULL if there are no more tokens.

CONFORMING TO
       strtok()
	      SVr4, POSIX.1-2001, 4.3BSD, C89, C99.

       strtok_r()
	      POSIX.1-2001.

BUGS
       Avoid using these functions.  If you do use them, note that:

	      These functions modify their first argument.

	      These functions cannot be used on constant strings.

	      The identity of the delimiting character is lost.

	      The strtok() function uses a static  buffer  while  parsing,  so
	      its not thread safe.  Use strtok_r() if this matters to you.

EXAMPLE
       The following program uses nested loops that employ strtok_r() to break
       a string into a two-level hierarchy of tokens.  The first  command-line
       argument specifies the string to be parsed.  The second argument speci
       fies the delimiter character(s) to be used to separate that string into
       "major"	tokens.   The  third  argument specifies the delimiter charac
       ter(s) to be used to separate the "major" tokens into subtokens.

       #include 
       #include 
       #include 

       int
       main(int argc, char *argv[])
       {
	   char *str1, *str2, *token, *subtoken;
	   char *saveptr1, *saveptr2;
	   int j;

	   if (argc != 4) {
	       fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s string delim subdelim\n",
		       argv[0]);
	       exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
	   }

	   for (j = 1, str1 = argv[1]; ; j++, str1 = NULL) {
	       token = strtok_r(str1, argv[2], &saveptr1);
	       if (token == NULL)
		   break;
	       printf("%d: %s\n", j, token);

	       for (str2 = token; ; str2 = NULL) {
		   subtoken = strtok_r(str2, argv[3], &saveptr2);
		   if (subtoken == NULL)
		       break;
		   printf(" --> %s\n", subtoken);
	       }
	   }

	   exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
       } /* main */

       An example of the output produced by this program is the following:

       $ ./a.out 'a/bbb///cc;xxx:yyy:' ':;' '/'
       1: a/bbb///cc
		--> a
		--> bbb
		--> cc
       2: xxx
		--> xxx
       3: yyy
		--> yyy

SEE ALSO
       index(3), memchr(3), rindex(3), strchr(3), strpbrk(3), strsep(3),  str
       spn(3), strstr(3), wcstok(3)

COLOPHON
       This  page  is  part of release 3.05 of the Linux man-pages project.  A
       description of the project, and information about reporting  bugs,  can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.



GNU				  2007-07-26			     STRTOK(3)