strtok()
Published Aug 23, 2022Updated Dec 21, 2022
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The strtok() function breaks a string into a series of tokens using a list of delimiters.
Note:
strtok()only works on C-style strings of typechar str[];, not C++ style strings of typestring str;.
Syntax
char *token = strtok(string, delimiter);
The strtok() function splits the C-style string parameter into tokens based on one or more delimiters, and returns the pointer to the first token.
Subsequent calls to strtok(), with string set to NULL, return a pointer to the next tokenized string. When there are no tokens left to retrieve, a NULL pointer is returned.
Codebyte Example
The following example splits up a comma-delimited list and prints out the result:
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