Document Number: WG14 N687/X3J11 __-___ C9X Revision Proposal ===================== Title: Replacement for strtok_______________________________ Author: Keith Bostic________________________________________ Author Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley______ Postal Address: 394 East Riding Dr., Carlisle MA 01741______ E-mail Address: bostic@cs.berkeley.edu______________________ Telephone Number: +1 508-287-4781___________________________ Fax Number: ________________________________________________ Sponsor: Peter Seebach______________________________________ Date: 1997-05-17____________________________________________ Proposal Category: __ Editorial change/non-normative contribution __ Correction Y_ New feature __ Addition to obsolescent feature list __ Addition to Future Directions __ Other (please specify) ______________________________ Area of Standard Affected: __ Environment __ Language __ Preprocessor Y_ Library Y_ Macro/typedef/tag name __ Function __ Header __ Other (please specify) ______________________________ Prior Art: Unknown__________________________________________ Target Audience: Vendors, programmers needing integer types. ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Related Documents (if any): proposal___________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Proposal Attached: Y_ Yes __ No, but what's your interest? Abstract: 1: Strtok cannot handle empty fields. 2: Strtok cannot handle more than a single string at a time. Proposal: Provide strsep as a replacement. char * strsep(char **stringp, char *delim); The strsep() function locates, in the string referenced by *stringp, the first occurrence of any character in the string delim (or the terminating `\0' character) and replaces it with a `\0'. The location of the next character after the delimiter character (or NULL, if the end of the string was reached) is stored in *stringp. The original value of *stringp is returned.