Tokenizing strings in C

Do it like this:

char s[256];
strcpy(s, "one two three");
char* token = strtok(s, " ");
while (token) {
    printf("token: %s\n", token);
    token = strtok(NULL, " ");
}

Note: strtok modifies the string its tokenising, so it cannot be a const char*.

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