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NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

This interface is obsoleted by strsep(3) . The function is used to isolate sequential tokens in a null-terminated string, These tokens are separated in the string by at least one of the characters in The first time that is called, should be specified; subsequent calls, wishing to obtain further tokens from the same string, should pass a null pointer instead. The separator string, must be supplied each time, and may change between calls. The function returns a pointer to the beginning of each subsequent token in the string, after replacing the separator character itself with a character. When no more tokens remain, a null pointer is returned.

SEE ALSO

STANDARDS

The function conforms to

BUGS

There is no way to get tokens from multiple strings simultaneously. The System V if handed a string containing only delimiter characters, will not alter the next starting point, so that a call to with a different (or empty) delimiter string may return a value. Since this implementation always alters the next starting point, such a sequence of calls would always return


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