Does strtok work with strings (as the delimiter)? [closed]

Answer 1

strtok returns char *. so u need to use somechar*var not somecharvariable.

your code will return the pointer to string "friend" and "l" will be replaced by '/0'.

Answer 2

The answer is no. Your example of "ly" will delimit on any occurrence of either "l" or "y" or "yl" or "ly"

The delimiter parameter is an array of characters, each meant to act as a delimiter.

This is an example of what you asked for:

char *iterate(char *p, const char *d, const size_t len)
{   
   while(p!=NULL && *p && memcmp(p, d, len)==0)
   {
      memset(p, 0x0, len);
      p+=len;    
   }
   return p;
}

char **
tokenize( char **result, char *working, const char *src, const char *delim)
{
     int i=0;
     char *p=NULL;
     size_t len=strlen(delim);     
     strcpy(working, src);
     p=working;
     for(result[i]=NULL, p=iterate(p, delim, len); p!=NULL && *p; p=iterate(p, delim, len) )
     {
         result[i++]=p;
         result[i]=NULL;
         p=strstr(p, delim);
     }
     return result;
}