hi, can someone help me with this (hopefully) minor problem...
I want to open a C file and read it in word by word (or split it into tokens as is possible in Java). This is so that I can recognise keywords, function calls etc. The closest I have got to it is to read a file line by line. Is it possible to split the line down further?
Thanks a lot,
Bill
If you want to split a line into words, then strtok might be the thing to go for.
Code:#include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> int main ( ) { char test_msg[]="This is a test message"; char *p; char *delim = " "; char *words[20]; int i = 0, j; p = strtok(test_msg,delim); while ( p ) { words[i] = p; p = strtok(NULL,delim); i++; } printf ( "%d\n", i ); for ( j = 0 ; j < i ; j++ ){ printf("'%s'\n", words[j]); } }
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the problem with strtok being that if the lineOriginally posted by Salem
If you want to split a line into words, then strtok might be the thing to go for.
Code:#include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> int main ( ) { char test_msg[]="This is a test message"; char *p; char *delim = " "; char *words[20]; int i = 0, j; p = strtok(test_msg,delim); while ( p ) { words[i] = p; p = strtok(NULL,delim); i++; } printf ( "%d\n", i ); for ( j = 0 ; j < i ; j++ ){ printf("'%s'\n", words[j]); } }
char test_msg[]="This is a test message";
were to be replaced by
char *test_msg="This is a test message";
there might be problem as strtok might try to modify a read only string , compiling with gcc leads to a problem but with bcc32 the program runs fine .
