strsep(3) Library Functions Manual strsep(3) strsep - C (libc, -lc) #include char *strsep(char **restrict stringp, const char *restrict delim); glibc (. feature_test_macros(7)): strsep(): glibc 2.19: _DEFAULT_SOURCE glibc 2.19 : _BSD_SOURCE If *stringp is NULL, the strsep() function returns NULL and does nothing else. Otherwise, this function finds the first token in the string *stringp that is delimited by one of the bytes in the string delim. This token is terminated by overwriting the delimiter with a null byte ('\0'), and *stringp is updated to point past the token. In case no delimiter was found, the token is taken to be the entire string *stringp, and *stringp is made NULL. strsep() , *stringp. attributes(7). +----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+ | | | | +----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+ |strsep() | | MT-Safe | +----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+ . 4.4BSD. strsep() strtok(3), . , strtok(3) C89/C99 . . , : o . o -. o -. The program below is a port of the one found in strtok(3), which, however, doesn't discard multiple delimiters or empty tokens: $ ./a.out 'a/bbb///cc;xxx:yyy:' ':;' '/' 1: a/bbb///cc --> a --> bbb --> --> --> cc 2: xxx --> xxx 3: yyy --> yyy 4: --> #include #include #include int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { char *token, *subtoken; if (argc != 4) { fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s string delim subdelim\n", argv[0]); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } for (unsigned int j = 1; (token = strsep(&argv[1], argv[2])); j++) { printf("%u: %s\n", j, token); while ((subtoken = strsep(&token, argv[3]))) printf("\t --> %s\n", subtoken); } exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); } memchr(3), strchr(3), string(3), strpbrk(3), strspn(3), strstr(3), strtok(3) () Alexander Golubev , Azamat Hackimov , Hotellook, Nikita , Spiros Georgaras , Vladislav , Yuri Kozlov , Kirill Rekhov ; GNU (GNU General Public License - GPL, 3 ) , - . - , , () () () <>. Linux 6.9.1 15 2024 . strsep(3)