C Programming: String manipulation

This sounds like a job for the strtok function.

#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
   const char str[80] = "This is - www.tutorialspoint.com - website";
   const char s[2] = "-";
   char *token;
   
   /* get the first token */
   token = strtok(str, s);
   
   /* walk through other tokens */
   while( token != NULL ) 
   {
      printf( " %s\n", token );
    
      token = strtok(NULL, s);
   }
   
   return(0);
}

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Using the above example, the only idea that comes to mind is to use an array of char *, and during each while loop iteration, increment the array by 1. In each iteration save "token"?

Is there a better way since I don't need to save all the fields (tokens), just the last one?

Sorry Kent, didn't see your comment until I posted mine. that clears things up a bit.

Your code looks pretty good.  :)  That's a lot learned in under a week.  :)

Could you not use a for loop for this instead? Something like (untested):

int i;

...

/* get the first token */
token = strtok(str, s);

for (i = 1; i < 3 && token != NULL; i++)
{
   token = strtok(str, s);    
}

if (token != NULL)
{
    printf( " %s\n", token );
}

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It's more-or-less equivalent to what you mention with the counter variable.