help me with this strtok

I have the following code:

Code:

 char* pch = strtok(line, " ");
      	 int h;
         for (h = 0; pch != NULL; h++){
	    if (h == 0){
	     target = StringConstruct(pch);
            pch = strtok(NULL, " ");
            printf("Target %s\n", target); 
	    }
	    else if (strlen(pch) > 1){
	      strcpy(dep[depIndex], pch);
	      printf("Dependencies %s\n", dep[depIndex] );
	      depIndex++;
	    }
	   pch = strtok(NULL, "  ");
         }

if I use this string:

Name : John

the strlen of John will be 5 instead of 4

If I use this

Name: John Legend

the strlen of John will be 4 but Legend will be 7, how do I fix this?

Remove the \n from the end of the string before you tokenize, or alternatively, add \n to your list of tokens to break off.

Are you by any chance using fgets() to read the input? If so, you may have a '\n' that you can't really see on the back of that string...

Code:

{
   char *p = strrchr(s, '\n');
   if (p) *p = 0;
}

will replace the newline with a NUL character and thus shorten the string by one char.

[And of course, it's not the fault of strtok()]

[Note: You could, potentially add "\n" to your search string and achieve the same effect - although I would probably just use the first bit of code directly after fgets() to clean up the string generically].

--
Mats