*Unless you're using a pre-specified configuration file format (e.g. TOML), then...

yason on Dec 16, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: String tokenization in C

Unless you're using a pre-specified configuration file format (e.g. TOML), then parsing configuration files requires a general parsing library.

If you have needs that require a general parsing library then why are you criticizing strtok()? It doesn't parse XML either, not C source code, nor any unspecified configuration file formats.

nly on Dec 17, 2018 [–]

My point is that strtok has almost no reasonable uses in real programs.