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Hi friends,
I 'm trying to extract values from a lines which are delimited by a
space
eg.
content of string is: "Hello World"

I use strtok to extract "Hello" and "World"

the code I use is

foo=atoi(strtok(data," "));
bar=atoi(strtok(NULL," "));

BUT If in case there's only one word, it gives me Segmentation Fault.
How can I handle this?
I tried try-catch but didnt work.


Can anyone please help me with this issue?
Thanks in advance

Neel <> writes:
> I 'm trying to extract values from a lines which are delimited by a
> space
> eg.
> content of string is: "Hello World"
>
> I use strtok to extract "Hello" and "World"
>
> the code I use is
>
> foo=atoi(strtok(data," "));
> bar=atoi(strtok(NULL," "));
>
> BUT If in case there's only one word, it gives me Segmentation Fault.
> How can I handle this?

You'll have to show us a small, complete, compilable program that
demonstrates the problem.

> I tried try-catch but didnt work.

Are you use a C++ compiler? comp.lang.c++ is down the hall, second
door on the left.

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Neel wrote:
> Hi friends,
> I 'm trying to extract values from a lines which are delimited by a
> space
> eg.
> content of string is: "Hello World"
>
> I use strtok to extract "Hello" and "World"
>
> the code I use is
>
> foo=atoi(strtok(data," "));
> bar=atoi(strtok(NULL," "));
>
> BUT If in case there's only one word, it gives me Segmentation Fault.
> How can I handle this?

Ever thought of checking the return value of strtok?

> I tried try-catch but didnt work.
>
Well considering C doesn't have try-catch and the descendent language
that does certainly doesn't use them for asynchronous signals, that's
hardly surprising.

--
Ian Collins.

On Sep 26, 3:21*am, Neel <> wrote:
> Hi friends,
> I 'm trying to extract values from a lines which are delimited by a
> space
> eg.
> content of string is: "Hello World"
>
> I use strtok to extract "Hello" and "World"
>
> the code I use is
>
> foo=atoi(strtok(data," "));
> bar=atoi(strtok(NULL," "));
>
> BUT If in case there's only one word, it gives me Segmentation Fault.

Sure, if it's only one word it will return NULL on the second call.

> How can I handle this?
> I tried try-catch but didnt work.
>

LOL! Did you try something like

try {
foo = atoi(strtok(data, " "));
}
catch (SegmentationFault e) {
printf("I caught a segfault! \n");
}

Sebastian

It gives some error.
Do I need to include any special header file for that?

Neel wrote:
> It gives some error.
> Do I need to include any special header file for that?

Including the context you are replying to in your posts would be a good
start.

--
Ian Collins.

On Sep 26, 1:21*am, Neel <a.k.v...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi friends,
> I 'm trying to extract values from a lines which are delimited by a
> space
> eg.
> content of string is: "Hello World"
>
> I use strtok to extract "Hello" and "World"
>
> the code I use is
>
> foo=atoi(strtok(data," "));
> bar=atoi(strtok(NULL," "));
>
> BUT If in case there's only one word, it gives me Segmentation Fault.
> How can I handle this?
> I tried try-catch but didnt work.

From:
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/c...ng/strtok.html
we have this:
/* strtok example */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main ()
{
char str[] ="- This, a sample string.";
char * pch;
printf ("Splitting string \"%s\" into tokens:\n",str);
pch = strtok (str," ,.-");
while (pch != NULL)
{
printf ("%s\n",pch);
pch = strtok (NULL, " ,.-");
}
return 0;
}


The while loop is due to this:
Return Value
A pointer to the last token found in string.
A null pointer is returned if there are no tokens left to retrieve.

Neel wrote:
> It gives some error.
> Do I need to include any special header file for that?

A very special one, I think - it was meant as a joke. The point is that
C doesn't have try/catch. C++ does, and for questions about C++ you
should go to comp.lang.c++. However, I can tell you what their answer
would be: C++ exceptions are also not usable for this purpose.

On the other hand, when strtok() has reached the end of the string you
asked it to tokenize, it returns a null pointer value. You're supposed
to use that fact to decide what to do next. If you try to actually use
that value as if it points to a string (for instance, by passing it to
atoi()), then you're going to get trouble.