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diff --git a/lib/libc/string/strtok.3 b/lib/libc/string/strtok.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..97a8b15 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/libc/string/strtok.3 @@ -0,0 +1,172 @@ +.\" 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 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by +.\" the American National Standards Committee X3, on Information +.\" Processing Systems. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notices, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above +.\" copyright notices, this list of conditions and the following +.\" disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided +.\" with the distribution. +.\" +.\" 3. Neither the name of Softweyr LLC, the University nor the names +.\" of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products +.\" derived from this software without specific prior written +.\" permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY SOFTWEYR LLC, THE REGENTS AND +.\" CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, +.\" INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF +.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE +.\" DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL SOFTWEYR LLC, THE REGENTS, OR +.\" CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, +.\" SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT +.\" LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF +.\" USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND +.\" ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, +.\" OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT +.\" OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)strtok.3 8.2 (Berkeley) 2/3/94 +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.Dd November 27, 1998 +.Dt STRTOK 3 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm strtok , strtok_r +.Nd string tokens +.Sh LIBRARY +.Lb libc +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In 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 +.Xr strsep 3 . +.Ef +.Pp +The +.Fn strtok +function +is used to isolate sequential tokens in a null-terminated string, +.Fa str . +These tokens are separated in the string by at least one of the +characters in +.Fa sep . +The first time that +.Fn strtok +is called, +.Fa str +should be specified; subsequent calls, wishing to obtain further tokens +from the same string, should pass a null pointer instead. +The separator string, +.Fa sep , +must be supplied each time, and may change between calls. +.Pp +The implementation will behave as if no library function calls +.Fn strtok . +.Pp +The +.Fn strtok_r +function is a reentrant version of +.Fn strtok . +The context pointer +.Fa last +must be provided on each call. +The +.Fn strtok_r +function +may also be used to nest two parsing loops within one another, as +long as separate context pointers are used. +.Pp +The +.Fn strtok +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 EXAMPLES +The following uses +.Fn strtok_r +to parse two strings using separate contexts: +.Bd -literal +char test[80], blah[80]; +char *sep = "\e\e/:;=-"; +char *word, *phrase, *brkt, *brkb; + +strcpy(test, "This;is.a:test:of=the/string\e\etokenizer-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\en", word, phrase); + } +} +.Ed +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr memchr 3 , +.Xr strchr 3 , +.Xr strcspn 3 , +.Xr strpbrk 3 , +.Xr strrchr 3 , +.Xr strsep 3 , +.Xr strspn 3 , +.Xr strstr 3 , +.Xr wcstok 3 +.Sh STANDARDS +The +.Fn strtok +function +conforms to +.St -isoC . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An Wes Peters , +Softweyr LLC: +.Aq wes@softweyr.com +.Pp +Based on the +.Fx 3.0 +implementation. +.Sh BUGS +The System V +.Fn strtok , +if handed a string containing only delimiter characters, +will not alter the next starting point, so that a call to +.Fn strtok +with a different (or empty) delimiter string +may return a +.Pf non- Dv NULL +value. +Since this implementation always alters the next starting point, +such a sequence of calls would always return +.Dv NULL . |