Thread: Tokenizing a string

I am working on a code trying to tokenize a string based on white spaces.I have discovered that when ever i try to copy a char from my untokenised string to my string index array it does not copy.

Code:

void parseString(char * unparsed,char **parsed){
    int pos=0;
    while(*unparsed!=NULL){
        while(*unparsed==' '){
            pos++;
            unparsed++;
        }
        (parsed[pos])=parsed[pos] + *(unparsed++);
       
      
    }
  
}

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
    char *s="44 3 2 + 8 * +\0";
    char *result[12];
    parseString(s,result);
    
    return (EXIT_SUCCESS);
}

Originally Posted by oogabooga

What exactly do you want result to contain after the execution of parseString?

Code:

index 0=44
index 1=3
index 2=2
index 3=+
index 4=8
index 5=*
index 6 =+

You only update 'pos' if the current character is space. But 'result' is an array of char pointers, you can not assign characters to it directly. You can assign offsets in the original string but each substring will contain all of the remaining string from that point unless you terminate at space with '\0'. This is how functions like strtok and strsep works.