Can anyone help me to understand the strtok() function.

[Manoj Manu]

Hi, I just confused with strtok() functionality.
while Iam trying to know about strtok() function, I found a sample code in one of the C websites. After executing that code what i come to know was "the string which we are giving" was separated and printed as a separate strings. The below code is that reference code.

#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;
}

After that I want to separate the string without using strtok() function. So That i implement a code like this.

#include<stdio.h>
void main()
{
    char str[20];
    int i = 0,length;
    printf("Enter any sentence\n");
    gets(str);
    printf("the sentence you entered is : %s\n",str);
    length = strlen(str);
    printf("string length is %d \n",length);
    printf("seperating the sentence into different strings\n");
    while(i < length)
    {
        if(str[i] != ' ')
        {
            printf("%c",str[i]);
            i++;
        }
        else
        {
            printf("\n");
            i++;
        }
    }
    printf("\n");
    return;
} 
 

Actually my doubt is Iam getting the output same as like previous code(strtok()). But, my trainer said that my code is totally wrong. So anyone please let me know what does internally happening in the strtok() function and what's wrong in my code.
Thank you in advance.

[donbock]

strtok treats any and all characters in second argument as delimiters. The second program only recognizes the space character as a delimiter.

strtok treats a series of consecutive delimiter characters as a single delimiter. The second program doesn't.

strtok ignores leading delimiters. The second program doesn't.

A couple of unrelated comments...
Always define main as returning int, never void.
gets is deprecated because it invites buffer overflow problems. Don't use it.

[Manoj Manu]

Thank u Sir for your Explanation.
I have a small doubt.
Is strtok() function Separating that Sentence into multiple strings or it just printing them as seperately ???
Incase of it is seperating it as a multiple strings, Where these strings are storing and how??
Thanks you..