question about parsing a string??

Hi,

I have a problem that I'm trying to figure out. I have the following string:

something1:something2

but something1 needs to be stored into some string variable
and something2 need to be stored into another seperate string variable. The : is just to seperate the 2 strings, it needs to be ignored.

I am not at all sure if this can even be done, or if so how to do it??

I am writing this in C++, but have not figured out how to parse this thing?

Thanks for any help in advance. It is appreciated.

There are several ways...

Code:

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char my_string[50] = "word"; //my_string
char my_string2[50] = "hello"; //my_string2
cin.getline(my_string, 50);

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Code:

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char * szString1 = szInput;
char * szString2 = strchr(szInput, ':');
if (szString2 != NULL) {
      *szString2 = '\0'; // Terminate string1 at :
      szString2++;      // Point to start of string2
}

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Assumes szInput can be modified.