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trezurka
trezurka

Reputation: 9

C find exact word in string

How to find exact words in string in C?
Example: word to find: "cat"
string: "cats dog" result nothing
string "cat dog" result found word "cat"

Upvotes: 0

Views: 230

Answers (1)

CaptainHb
CaptainHb

Reputation: 13

first you can use strtok function to split string into separate word and then use strcmp to comapre the result words againts your interest word.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main() {
    char string[50] = "cats dog";

    char *token = strtok(string, " "); // split string by space

    // here token contains one word in string
    // each time strtok(NULL, " ") is called, the next word will be extracted
    while( token != NULL ) {

        printf( " %s\n", token ); //printing each token

        if (!strcmp(token, "cat"))
        {
            printf("cat found!\n");
        }
        
        token = strtok(NULL, " ");

    }
   return 0;
}

Upvotes: 1

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