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C program to split the string using the strtok() function

Here, we are going to learn how to split the string using the strtok() function in C programming language?
Submitted by Nidhi, on July 21, 2021

Problem statement

In this program, we will use the strtok() function. This function is used to split the string and get words from a specified string based on a specified delimiter.

C program to split the string using the strtok() function

The source code to split the string using the strtok() function is given below. The given program is compiled and executed using GCC compile on UBUNTU 18.04 OS successfully.

// C program to split string 
// using strtok() function

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main()
{
    char str[32] = "www.includehelp.com";
    char* word;
    char delim[2] = ".";

    //Get first word from string.
    word = strtok(str, delim);

    while (word != NULL) {
        printf("%s\n", word);
        word = strtok(NULL, delim);
    }

    return 0;
}

Output

www
includehelp
com

Explanation

In the main() function, we created a string str initialized with "www.includehelp.com". Then we split the string based on dot (.) delimiter using the strtok() function and printed the words on the console screen.

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