1.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991 The Regents of the University of California. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 5.\" Chris Torek. 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 15.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 16.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 17.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 18.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 19.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 20.\" without specific prior written permission. 21.\" 22.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 23.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 24.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 25.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 26.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 27.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 28.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 29.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 30.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 31.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 32.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 33.\" 34.\" @(#)strsep.3 5.3 (Berkeley) 4/19/91 35.\" 36.Dd April 19, 1991 37.Dt STRSEP 3 38.Os 39.Sh NAME 40.Nm strsep 41.Nd separate strings 42.Sh SYNOPSIS 43.Fd #include <string.h> 44.Ft char * 45.Fn strsep "char **stringp" "char *delim" 46.Sh DESCRIPTION 47The 48.Fn strsep 49locates in the null-terminated string at 50.Fa *stringp 51the first occurence of any character in 52.Fa delim 53and replaces this with a 54.Ql \e0 , 55records the location of the immediate following character in 56.Fa *stringp , 57then returns the original value of 58.Fa *stringp . 59If no delimiter characters are found, 60.Fn strsep 61sets 62.Fa *stringp 63to 64.Dv NULL ; 65if 66.Fa *stringp 67is initially 68.Dv NULL , 69.Fn strsep 70returns 71.Dv NULL . 72.Sh EXAMPLES 73The following uses 74.Fn strsep 75to parse strings containing runs of white space, 76making up an argument vector: 77.Bd -literal -offset indent 78char inputstring[100]; 79char **argv[51], **ap = argv, *p, *val; 80/* set up inputstring */ 81for (p = inputstring; p != NULL; ) { 82 while ((val = strsep(&p, " \et")) != NULL && *val == '\e0'); 83 *ap++ = val; 84} 85*ap = 0; 86.Ed 87.Sh HISTORY 88The 89.Fn strsep 90function is 91.Ud . 92