The challenge problem for today will be to take a very long string and break it into tokens by a given delimiter, and print out each token.

gistfile1.txt

Example input/output.

    "the cat in the hat is very fat"

outputs:

    the
    cat
    in
    the
    hat
    is
    very
    fat

strspl.c

#include <stdio.h>

void splitString(char *input, char delim)
{
	int i= 0, j = 0;
	for(i = 0; input[i] != '\0'; i++)
	{
		if(input[i] == delim)
		{
			while(j < i) //Print out the word
				putchar(input[j++]);
			putchar('\n');
			j++; //move j past the deliminator
		}
	}
	//case for last word, not followed by delim
	while(j < i)
		putchar(input[j++]);
	putchar('\n');
}

int main()
{
	char *myString = "Hello everyone this is a test of the emergency alert system";
	splitString(myString, ' ');
	return 0;
}