Separate text when reading text

[3saul]

I have a file that has the following layout

Data:\t (tab)serial

Should I use strtok to separate the Data:\t from the string I want or use something else?

#define DELIM_2 "Data:\t"

char  *sep = strtok(filedata, DELIM_2);
printf ("%s\n", sep);

Doesn't seem to work.

[caduardo21]

Read a line from the file into a character buffer and use the strchr function from string.h to get a pointer to that tab.

char line[MAXLINE];
/* read a line from the file into line */
char *p = strchr(line, '\t');
printf("%s\n", p + 1);

You should check the return value of strchr just to make sure before attempting to use it.