Retrieving string out of token and put in array

[Someone21]

Hi all,

I am currently trying to retrieve a string from a textfile, separate that and put it in an array.

I stumbled on the problem that *token is a pointer, and not the string. However when i printf("%s", token) it prints out the word that it points to. Could anyone explain how to fix this problem?

Words.txt:

dog|cat|hamster

The code:
char c[50000]; /* declare a char array */
int n;
FILE *file; /* declare a FILE pointer */
file = fopen("words.tx t", "r");
n = fread(c, 1, 50000, file);
c[n] = '\0';

/* Separating the contents, divided by | */

char *token = strtok(c, "|");
char words[50000];
int f = 0;
while(token != NULL)
{
printf("[%s]\n", token);
/* Here the error is caused: invalid conversion from char* to char */
words[f] = token;
token = strtok(NULL, "|");
f++;
}
fclose(file);

[weaknessforcats]

char *token = strtok(c, "|");

*token is not a pointer. The code above says that *token is a char.

It is token that is a pointer of char.

When C functions see a char*, they usually assume a null-termninated string. So printf displays the string atthe address in token.

This code:

char words[50000];
int f = 0;
while(token != NULL)
{
printf("[%s]\n", token);
/* Here the error is caused: invalid conversion from char* to char */
words[f] = token;

attempts to assign a pointer to char (token) to a char. Hence, the invalid conversion from char* to char.

I expect you want to copy the string pointed at by token to the words array.

If so, you need a) an array of char* rather than char, b) you need to allocate memory for words[f] and finally strcpy from token to words[f] to place the string in the array.