How does strtok() split the string into tokens in C?

Question

Please explain to me the working of strtok() function. The manual says it breaks the string into tokens. I am unable to understand from the manual what it actua

Answer 1

This is how i implemented strtok, Not that great but after working 2 hr on it finally got it worked. It does support multiple delimiters.

#include "stdafx.h"
#include 
using namespace std;

char* mystrtok(char str[],char filter[]) 
{
    if(filter == NULL) {
        return str;
    }
    static char *ptr = str;
    static int flag = 0;
    if(flag == 1) {
        return NULL;
    }
    char* ptrReturn = ptr;
    for(int j = 0; ptr != '\0'; j++) {
        for(int i=0 ; filter[i] != '\0' ; i++) {
            if(ptr[j] == '\0') {
                flag = 1;
                return ptrReturn;
            }
            if( ptr[j] == filter[i]) {
                ptr[j] = '\0';
                ptr+=j+1;
                return ptrReturn;
            }
        }
    }
    return NULL;
}

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
    char str[200] = "This,is my,string.test";
    char *ppt = mystrtok(str,", .");
    while(ppt != NULL ) {
        cout<< ppt << endl;
        ppt = mystrtok(NULL,", ."); 
    }
    return 0;
}