Re: what the fork is wrong with strtok_r

From	Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: what the fork is wrong with strtok_r
Date	2015-03-28 17:39 -0700
Organization	None to speak of
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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.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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what the fork is wrong with strtok_r what <ceo@iran.gov> - 2015-03-28 14:41 +0000
  Re: what the fork is wrong with strtok_r James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-03-28 10:57 -0400
    Re: what the fork is wrong with strtok_r Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-03-28 17:39 -0700
      Re: what the fork is wrong with strtok_r James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-03-28 21:33 -0400
      Re: what the fork is wrong with strtok_r ruben safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2015-03-29 03:36 -0400
      Re: what the fork is wrong with strtok_r ruben safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2015-03-29 03:39 -0400
  Re: what the fork is wrong with strtok_r Lőrinczy Zsigmond <nospam@for.me> - 2015-03-29 08:28 +0200

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