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authorwes <wes@FreeBSD.org>1998-12-14 05:11:26 +0000
committerwes <wes@FreeBSD.org>1998-12-14 05:11:26 +0000
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Reviewed by: JKH
Submitted by: Wes Peters Added strtok_r (reentrant) function and man page.
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+++ b/lib/libc/string/strtok.3
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998 Softweyr LLC. All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" strtok_r, from Berkeley strtok
+.\" Oct 13, 1998 by Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
+.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1988, 1991, 1993
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.\"
@@ -8,43 +13,54 @@
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.\" @(#)strtok.3 8.2 (Berkeley) 2/3/94
.\"
-.Dd February 3, 1994
+.Dd November 27, 1998
.Dt STRTOK 3
-.Os BSD 3
+.Os FreeBSD 3.0
.Sh NAME
-.Nm strtok
+.Nm strtok, strtok_r
.Nd string tokens
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Fd #include <string.h>
.Ft char *
.Fn strtok "char *str" "const char *sep"
+.Ft char *
+.Fn strtok_r "char *str" "const char *sep" "char **last"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Bf -symbolic
This interface is obsoleted by strsep(3).
@@ -69,13 +85,51 @@ The separator string,
must be supplied each time, and may change between calls.
.Pp
The
+.Fn strtok_r
+function is a reentrant version of
+.Fn strtok ,
+the context pointer
+.Fa last
+must be provided on each call.
+.Fn strtok_r
+may also be used to nest two parsing loops within one another, as
+long as seperate context pointers are used.
+.Pp
+The
.Fn strtok
-function
-returns a pointer to the beginning of each subsequent token in the string,
+and
+.Fn strtok_r
+functions
+return a pointer to the beginning of each subsequent token in the string,
after replacing the token itself with a
.Dv NUL
character.
When no more tokens remain, a null pointer is returned.
+.Sh EXAMPLE
+The following uses
+.Fn strtok_r ()
+to parse two strings using separate contexts:
+.Bd -literal
+char test[80], blah[80];
+char *sep = "\\/:;=-";
+char *word, *phrase, *brkt, *brkb;
+
+strcpy(test, "This;is.a:test:of=the/string\\tokenizer-function.");
+
+for (word = strtok_r(test, sep, &brkt);
+ word;
+ word = strtok_r(NULL, sep, &brkt))
+{
+ strcpy(blah, "blah:blat:blab:blag");
+
+ for (phrase = strtok_r(blah, sep, &brkb);
+ phrase;
+ phrase = strtok_r(NULL, sep, &brkb))
+ {
+ printf("So far we're at %s:%s\n", word, phrase);
+ }
+}
+.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr index 3 ,
.Xr memchr 3 ,
@@ -94,8 +148,6 @@ function
conforms to
.St -ansiC .
.Sh BUGS
-There is no way to get tokens from multiple strings simultaneously.
-.Pp
The System V
.Fn strtok ,
if handed a string containing only delimiter characters,
@@ -108,3 +160,8 @@ value.
Since this implementation always alters the next starting point,
such a sequence of calls would always return
.Dv NULL .
+.Sh AUTHOR
+Wes Peters, Softweyr LLC:
+.Xr <wes@softweyr.com>
+.br
+Based on the FreeBSD 3.0 implementation.
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