something like parsing...i think

[hmm...]

if a function is sent a string like : My name is Bob. ; how could you separate each word? w/o storing each word in a new array? is there a way to get the first word, make a change to it, then print it with the change and then move on to the next word in the array? how could you do this without using anything but stdio.h?

i was thinking of something like using a for loop ?

[quzah]

Read the data. Modify it. Display it. Rinse. Repeat.

Quzah.

[orbitz]

Look up strstr and strchr.

Hint: char *

[Cela]

>>Look up strstr and strchr.
That's not in stdio.h, they're in string.h.

>> how could you do this without using anything but stdio.h?
Use sscanf, since it only reads up to the next whitespace you can break up words easily. The biggest problem is how to move the get pointer forward through the string using it as a loop. This can be done by using the %n format for sscanf that tells you how many characters were read, just assign a pointer to the array and after each repetition of the loop, add the value of %n to the pointer until there's nothing left.

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
  int n;
  char name[] = "My name is Bob", *namep = name;
  char word[5];

  while (sscanf(namep, "%s%n", word, &n) == 1)
  {
    word[0] = 'A';
    printf("%s\n", word);
    namep += n;
  }

  return 0;
}