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NAME

       ao_string_tokenize - tokenize an input string

SYNOPSIS

       #include <your-opts.h>
       cc [...] -o outfile infile.c -lopts [...]

       token_list_t* ao_string_tokenize(char const* string);

DESCRIPTION

       This  function  will  convert  one input string into a list of strings.
       The list of strings is derived by separating the input based  on  white
       space  separation.   However,  if  the  input contains either single or
       double quote characters, then the text after that  character  up  to  a
       matching quote will become the string in the list.

       The  returned pointer should be deallocated with free(3C) when are done
       using the data.  The data are placed in a  single  block  of  allocated
       memory.  Do not deallocate individual token/strings.

       The structure pointed to will contain at least these two fields:

       tkn_ct The number of tokens found in the input string.

       tok_list  An array of tkn_ct + 1 pointers to substring tokens, with the
       last pointer set to NULL.

       There are two types of quoted strings: single  quoted  (’)  and  double
       quoted  (").   Singly  quoted  strings  are  fairly  raw in that escape
       characters (\) are simply another character, except when preceding  the
       following characters:
           \  double backslashes reduce to one
           ’   incorporates the single quote into the string
           0fP  suppresses both the backslash and newline character

       Double  quote  strings  are  formed  according  to  the rules of string
       constants in ANSI-C programs.

       string string to be tokenized

RETURN VALUE

       pointer to a structure that lists each token

ERRORS

       NULL is returned and errno will be set to indicate the problem:

       EINVAL - There was an unterminated quoted string.

       ENOENT - The input string was empty.

       ENOMEM - There is not enough memory.  @end itemize

EXAMPLES

                #include <stdlib.h>
                int ix;
                token_list_t* ptl = ao_string_tokenize( some_string )
                for (ix = 0; ix < ptl->tkn_ct; ix++)
                do_something_with_tkn( ptl->tkn_list[ix] );
                free( ptl );
            Note that everything is freed with the one call to free(3C).

SEE ALSO

       The info documentation for the -lopts library.
       configFileLoad(3),      optionFileLoad(3),      optionFindNextValue(3),
       optionFindValue(3),          optionFree(3),          optionGetValue(3),
       optionLoadLine(3),       optionNextValue(3),        optionOnlyUsage(3),
       optionProcess(3),          optionRestore(3),         optionSaveFile(3),
       optionSaveState(3),      optionUnloadNested(3),       optionVersion(3),
       pathfind(3),  strequate(3),  streqvcmp(3), streqvmap(3), strneqvcmp(3),
       strtransform(3),

                                  2010-02-10             ao_string_tokenize(3)