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

Here is my implementation which uses hash table for the delimiter, which means it O(n) instead of O(n^2) (here is a link to the code):

#include
#include
#include

#define DICT_LEN 256

int *create_delim_dict(char *delim)
{
    int *d = (int*)malloc(sizeof(int)*DICT_LEN);
    memset((void*)d, 0, sizeof(int)*DICT_LEN);

    int i;
    for(i=0; i< strlen(delim); i++) {
        d[delim[i]] = 1;
    }
    return d;
}



char *my_strtok(char *str, char *delim)
{

    static char *last, *to_free;
    int *deli_dict = create_delim_dict(delim);

    if(!deli_dict) {
        /*this check if we allocate and fail the second time with entering this function */
        if(to_free) {
            free(to_free);
        }
        return NULL;
    }

    if(str) {
        last = (char*)malloc(strlen(str)+1);
        if(!last) {
            free(deli_dict);
            return NULL;
        }
        to_free = last;
        strcpy(last, str);
    }

    while(deli_dict[*last] && *last != '\0') {
        last++;
    }
    str = last;
    if(*last == '\0') {
        free(deli_dict);
        free(to_free);
        deli_dict = NULL;
        to_free = NULL;
        return NULL;
    }
    while (*last != '\0' && !deli_dict[*last]) {
        last++;
    }

    *last = '\0';
    last++;

    free(deli_dict);
    return str;
}

int main()
{
    char * str = "- This, a sample string.";
    char *del = " ,.-";
    char *s = my_strtok(str, del);
    while(s) {
        printf("%s\n", s);
        s = my_strtok(NULL, del);
    }
    return 0;
}