string tokenizer

I am trying to find a file type through the file extension. I am trying to use string tokenizer to get the file type. How do i use strtok. what i have done is

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char * temp = strtok(filename, ".");

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The things is how do i get the file extension by its self? Some files have '.' in the filename, but i am only interested in the last few characters after the last '.'

Any hints?

thanks

Why bother tokenizing? Just use strrchr, and it'll give you the last occurance of the character in the string.


Quzah.

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Originally Posted by mbooka

I am trying to find a file type through the file extension. I am trying to use string tokenizer to get the file type. How do i use strtok. what i have done is

Code:

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char * temp = strtok(filename, ".");

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The things is how do i get the file extension by its self? Some files have '.' in the filename, but i am only interested in the last few characters after the last '.'

Any hints?

thanks

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dont use strtok it alters u's your original string. better use strchr as Quzah says

ssharish2005

Actually I suggested strrchr, to find the last occurance. ;)


Quzah.

thanks, works the charm :)