Thread: carriage return when tokenizing

Hi,

I am using fgets() to read in a series of lines from a text file, then splitting this into tokens using strtok(). These tokens are then compared to an array of other tokens, and printed if the tokens match.
However, because of the carriage return at the end of a line, whenever the last token in the line is printed, a carriage return is also printed. Is there anyway that I can print the token but not the carriage return?

Thanks

If you could please show us some code it would greatly be appreciated.

Am using....

while (fgets(line, sizeof(line), openedInFile) != NULL) {
splitTokens(line);
}

to open file and send each individual line to splitTokens, which has (char string[]) as it parameters. I am then using...

x = strtok(string, " ");

to tokenize it, looping through the string using...

x = strtok(NULL, " ");

there is an "if" statement in there comparing x to an array of tokens, printing x if it matches one of the elements. This works fine, except when printing the last token of a line, as the carriage return also prints, so the output is difficult to read.


On a separate note, when the line bgins with a tab, the whole thing goes wrong. Any help would be appreciated!!!

Thanks,

Bill

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main ( ) {
    char buff[] = "\t\thello world\n";
    char toks[] = "\t \n"; // tabs, spaces and newlines
    char *p;
    for ( p = strtok(buff,toks) ; p != NULL ; p = strtok(NULL,toks) ) {
        printf( "'%s'\n", p );
    }
    return 0;
}

thanks mate, i think i understand the strtok a lot more now. I'll give your suggestion a go but i think it will work. can't understand why your fontsize is so big though!!!!

Bill

PS. Can I ask how old you are and how long it took you to become such an expert?

if I have char delim[] = "\t " then the prog. works fine, but when I add \n to it, (ie: char delim[] = "\t in") it compiles but I get the message that the programme has performed an illegal operation at run-time and then the whole thing shuts down. Any ideas?

Thanks, Bill