How to use Strtok for tokenizing a Const char*?

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the_naive picture the_naive · Apr 23, 2012 · Viewed 12.4k times · Source

I have a const char* variable which may have a value like "OpenStack:OpenStack1". I want to tokenize this const char* using strtok where the delimiter(which is of a const char* type) is ":" . But the problem is strtok is of following type: char * strtok ( char * str, const char * delimiters );

Which means I can't use const char* for the first input as it has to be char*. Could you say me how I can convert this const char* into char*?

Thank you.

Answer

Joachim Isaksson picture Joachim Isaksson · Apr 23, 2012

Since strtok actually writes to your string, you need to make a writable copy of it to tokenize;

char* copy = strdup(myReadonlyString);
...tokenize copy...
free(copy);

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