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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Buffer contents well-defined after fgets() reaches EOF ?
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2025 19:21:02 +0100
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On 16.02.2025 08:32, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> 
> I would recommend learning about strspn and strcspn, and writing
> your own tokenizing loop:

Incidentally, in a recent toy project, I used it for parsing simple
syntax.

For the code of this thread the strtok() was simpler to use, though.

> 
> The strok function is ill-suited to many situations.  For instance,
> there are situations in which you do want empty tokens, like CSV, such
> that ",abc,def," shows four tokens, two of them empty.

Sure. (Always use an appropriate solution for any given task.)

Janis

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