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What is strtok() function in C language?
strtok() function is a part of the <string.h> header file #include <string.h>
The syntax of strtok() function is as follows −
char* strtok(char* string, const char* limiter);
Input string string and a delimiter character limiter. strtok() will divide the string into tokens based on the delimited character.
We can expect a list of strings from strtok(). But, the function returns a single string because after calling strtok(input, limiter), it will returns the first token.
But we have to keep calling the function again and again on a NULL input string, until we get NULL! Generally, we used to keep calling strtok(NULL, delim) until it returns NULL.
Example
Following is the C program for strtok() function −
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
int main() {
char input_string[] = "Hello Tutorials Point!";
char token_list[20][20];
char* token = strtok(input_string, " ");
int num_tokens = 0; // Index to token list. We will append to the list
while (token != NULL) {
strcpy(token_list[num_tokens], token); // Copy to token list
num_tokens++;
token = strtok(NULL, " "); // Get the next token. Notice that input=NULL now!
}
// Print the list of tokens
printf("Token List:
");
for (int i=0; i < num_tokens; i++) {
printf("%s
", token_list[i]);
}
return 0;
}Output
When the above program is executed, it produces the following result −
Token List: Hello Tutorials Point!
Input string is “Hello Tutorials Point”, and we are trying to tokenize it by spaces.
We get first token by using strtok(input, " "). Here the double quotes are delimiter and are a single character string!
Afterwards, we keep getting tokens by using strtok(NULL, " ") and loop until we get NULL from strtok().
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