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C Programming: String manipulation

If I have a string such as the one below (which contains 3 fields - URL, status, host-list):
http://www.csun.edu/               redirected              130.166.238.195, redwing.csun.edu

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Where the whitespace between each field is tab delimited, how can I store the 3rd field (host-list) in a variable?
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pzozulkaAsked:
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Kent OlsenConnect With a Mentor Data Warehouse Architect / DBACommented:
Hi pzozulka,

There are quite a few ways to do this.  Based on your previous thread, I'd try something like this:

  char *String;   //  The line you're looking at
  char *S;
  char *URL;
  char *text;
  char *IP;

// Set some value into String for this example.

  String = "http://www.csun.edu/               redirected              130.166.238.195, redwing.csun.edu                                  ";
  S = strdup (String);  // make a copy of String so we don't mess with the original.
  URL = strtok (S, " \t");  // Get the URL
  text = strtok (NULL, " \t");
  IP = strtok (NULL, "\t");

// Note that you should call free (S) when you're done here

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Kent
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käµfm³d 👽Commented:
This sounds like a job for the strtok function.
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pzozulkaAuthor Commented: 
#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?
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pzozulkaAuthor Commented:
Sorry Kent, didn't see your comment until I posted mine. that clears things up a bit.
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Kent OlsenData Warehouse Architect / DBACommented:
Your code looks pretty good.  :)  That's a lot learned in under a week.  :)
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käµfm³d 👽Commented:
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.
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