This is in Ansi C. I am given a string. I am supposed to create a method that returns an array of character pointers that point to the beginning of each word of said string. I am not allowed to use Malloc, but instead told that the maximum length of input will be 80.
Also, before anyone flames me for not searching the forum, I can't use strtok :(
char input[80] = "hello world, please tokenize this string"
and the output of the method should have 6 elements;
output[0] points to the "h",
output[1] points to the "w",
and so on.
How should I write the method?
Also, I need a similar method to handle input from a file with maximum of 110 lines.
Pseudocode:
boolean isInWord = false
while (*ptr != NUL character) {
if (!isInWord and isWordCharacter(*ptr)) {
isInWord = true
save ptr
} else if (isInWord and !isWordCharacter(*ptr)) {
isInWord = false
}
increment ptr
}
isWordCharacter
checks whether the character is part of the word or not. Depending on your definition, it can be only alphabet character (recognize part-time
as 2 words), or it may include -
(recognize part-time
as one word).
Because it's homework here's a part of what you might need:
char* readPtr = input;
char* wordPtr = input;
int wordCount = 0;
while (*readPtr++ != ' ');
/* Here we have a word from wordPtr to readPtr-1 */
output[wordCount++] = /* something... :) */
You'll need that in a loop, and must consider how to move onto the next word, and check for end of input.
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