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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-26 16:38:00 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-26 16:38:00 -0400 |
| commit | 97d5c458cfa039d857301e1ca7d5af3beb37131d (patch) | |
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diff --git a/static/plan9-4e/man2/getfields.2 b/static/plan9-4e/man2/getfields.2 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9f899773 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/plan9-4e/man2/getfields.2 @@ -0,0 +1,88 @@ +.TH GETFIELDS 2 +.SH NAME +getfields, gettokens, tokenize \- break a string into fields +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B #include <u.h> +.br +.B #include <libc.h> +.PP +.ta \w'\fLchar* \fP'u +.B +int getfields(char *str, char **args, int maxargs, int multiflag, +.br +.B + char *delims) +.PP +.B +int gettokens(char *str, char **args, int maxargs, char *delims) +.PP +.B +int tokenize(char *str, char **args, int maxargs) +.SH DESCRIPTION +.I Getfields +breaks the null-terminated +.SM UTF +string +.I str +into at most +.I maxargs +null-terminated fields and places pointers to the start of these fields in the array +.IR args . +Some of the bytes in +.I str +are overwritten. +If there are more than +.I maxargs +fields, +only the first +.I maxargs +fields will be set. +.I Delims +is a +.SM UTF +string defining a set of delimiters. +.PP +If +.I multiflag +is zero, +adjacent fields are separated by exactly one delimiter. +A string containing +.I n +delimiter characters +contains +.IR n +1 +fields. +If the +.I multiflag +argument is not zero, +a field is a non-empty string of non-delimiters. +.PP +Getfields +returns the number of tokens processed. +.PP +.I Gettokens +is the same as +.I getfields +with +.I multiflag +non-zero, +except that fields may be quoted using single quotes, in the manner +of +.IR rc (1). +See +.IR quote (2) +for related quote-handling software. +.PP +.I Tokenize +is +.I gettokens +with +.I delims +set to \f5"\et\er\en "\fP. +.SH SOURCE +.B /sys/src/libc/port/tokenize.c +.SH SEE ALSO +.I strtok +in +.IR strcat (2), +.IR quote (2). |
