Understading how strtok works...

I've found some strtok example on the net, which is this: http://www.phim.unibe.ch/comp_doc/c_...MPLES/strtok.c

I can easly understand the code and I've already adapted it to my own code, however, there's something I don't understand, which is this line (more exactly the thing in bold):

while ( (sub_string=strtok(NULL, " ")) != NULL)

How come strtok() will get the other strings out of test_string if only I have there in the function parameter is NULL? Where does he get the data from?

Just want to understand that...

> Where does he get the data from?
The first time you call it, you pass the pointer to the string you want to tokenise.
After that, it remembers where it got to all by itself, and returns each successive token.

This also makes it much harder to use strtok() to tokenise two strings in parallel.

Not to mention that strtok() also modifies the string in the process, which comes as a shock to the average newbie.

>>Not to mention that strtok() also modifies the string in the process, which comes as a shock to the average newbie.

[rant]It shouldn't be shocking if people would learn to read the manual (RTFM)! or read their text books. But some newbes prefer to shoot from the hip and toss together a program using functions they have no clue what they do.[/rant]

lol... actually, after playing with it and seeing that example I think I got how it work and as I said before, my program woks pretty good with it, the way I code it. I only didn't understand that little thing that you have now clarified for me :)

Thank won't change anything in my app cause I wasn't having any trouble, I just wanted to know how it was getting the string.

thanks

>It shouldn't be shocking if people would learn to read the manual (RTFM)! or read their text books.
I wasn't aware that the average newbie did such things.