[Tutor] what is the equivalent function to strtok() in c++

[Alan Gauld]

"Dave Angel" <davea at ieee.org> wrote 

> If your tokens are separated by whitespace, you can simply use a single 
> call to split().  It will turn a single string into a list of tokens.
> 
> line = "Now   is the time"
> print line.split()
> 
> will display the list:
> ['Now', 'is', 'the', 'time']

And if it's not separated by whitespace you can supply the 
separator, eg a colon:

line.split(':')

For more sophisticated functionality use the re module or a 
specialised parser.


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Alan Gauld
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