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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: what the fork is wrong with strtok_r
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James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> writes:
[...]
> Note: if you're using gets() to read the text string, '\n' characters
> will be replaced with '\0', which would make tokenizing on '\n' a little
> difficult. If that fact is completely irrelevant to your problem, that
> demonstrates the need for item 1.

If you're using gets(), that's your first problem.  gets() is inherently
unsafe, and has been removed from the language as of the 2011 standard.

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