split words from a string in C

[nickyeng]

i getting a line from text file, and then i have to split the line into words.

i have this in my text file , "23 Nick male"

i'm not sure how to split those words from a line in C language.

could anyone helps, please.
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[Ganon11]

Does C have the strtok method?

If you're using pure character arrays (no std::string class), then you can write a find function that takes a cstring, its size, and a character and returns the index of the first occurance of that character in the cstring. Using this, you can find the first portion of the string before a space, use that portion as your age, then repeat the process for the name and gender.

[Extremist]

Since you are writing in C, you will declare the line you are reading in
as follow:

char * line;
 

I would suggest, that you go through every single character:
See if it is a space:

for(int n = 0; n < length(line); n++)
{   
      if( line[n] == ' ' )   // See if it is a space
          { 
                // do whatever you need doing
 

You can store an array of pointers which will point to each new word in you line
and use it accordingly

Hope I helped a little. In C everything is done manually.

[nickyeng]

thanks Extremist.

i will try it out.

thanks both of you.

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