parsing a big string in smaller strings.

Hi All,

I want to parse a big string

char Big_String[150];

into small strings

char Small_String[30][5] ;


I mean to say that Small_String are separated by spaces in the
Big_String and i want to save them them in five different
Small_Strings. There may be 1,2,3 4 or 5 [ at max] Small_Strings
present in the Big_String.

Please write a compact subroutine for me.

TIA,
Shishir

Shishir wrote:
Hi All,
>
I want to parse a big string
>
char Big_String[150];
>
into small strings
>
char Small_String[30][5] ;
>
>
I mean to say that Small_String are separated by spaces in the
Big_String and i want to save them them in five different
Small_Strings. There may be 1,2,3 4 or 5 [ at max] Small_Strings
present in the Big_String.

Then why have you declared Small_String as appropriate for 30 strings of
at most 4 bytes each?

Please write a compact subroutine for me.

We don't tend to do homework on request

Shishir wrote:

Hi All,
>
I want to parse a big string
>
char Big_String[150];

(Nitpick: that's not automatically a string; it's a char array.
It's not a string unless there's null termination inside it.)

(Stylepick: one can use camelCase; one can use underlined_form;
trying to use them both simultaneously seems to be a computational
marmite ice-cream.)

into small strings
>
char Small_String[30][5] ;
>
>
I mean to say that Small_String are separated by spaces in the
Big_String and i want to save them them in five different
Small_Strings. There may be 1,2,3 4 or 5 [ at max] Small_Strings
present in the Big_String.

So the big string has space-separated small strings in it, K.

Please write a compact subroutine for me.

This is not a Do My Work For Me group. But I suggest that you look at
the [specification of the] standard function `strtok`.

--
Chris "def compact() =();" Dollin

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Chris Dollin wrote:
Shishir wrote:
>

>I mean to say that Small_String are separated by spaces in the
>Big_String and i want to save them them in five different
>Small_Strings. There may be 1,2,3 4 or 5 [ at max] Small_Strings
>present in the Big_String.

But I suggest that you look at
the [specification of the] standard function `strtok`.
>

I was considering an evil solution, writing the original string to a
file, converting space to EL on output and then reading the file a line
at a time