If *stringp is NULL, the
strsep()
function returns NULL
and does nothing else.
Otherwise, this function finds the first token
in the string *stringp, where tokens
are delimited by symbols in the string delim.
This token is terminated with a aq\0aq character
(by overwriting the delimiter)
and *stringp is updated to point past the token.
In case no delimiter was found, the token is taken to be
the entire string *stringp, and *stringp is made NULL.
RETURN VALUE
The
strsep()
function returns a pointer to the token,
that is, it returns the original value of *stringp.
CONFORMING TO
4.4BSD.
NOTES
The
strsep()
function was introduced as a replacement for
strtok(3),
since the latter cannot handle empty fields.
However,
strtok(3)
conforms to C89/C99 and hence is more portable.
BUGS
This function suffers from the same problems as
strtok(3).
In particular, it modifies the original string.
Avoid it.
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