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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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    <refnamediv>
        <refname>strtok</refname>
        <refpurpose>split string into tokens</refpurpose>
    </refnamediv>
    <refsynopsisdiv>
        <title>Calling Sequence</title>
        <synopsis>res = strtok(str, delimiters)</synopsis>
    </refsynopsisdiv>
    <refsection>
        <title>Arguments</title>
        <variablelist>
            <varlistentry>
                <term>str</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>a character string.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term>delimiters</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>a character string.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term>res</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>a character string.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
        </variablelist>
    </refsection>
    <refsection>
        <title>Description</title>
        <para>
            <code>res = strtok(str, delimiters)</code>  sequence of calls to
            this function split <varname>str</varname> into tokens, which are
            sequences of contiguous characters separated by any of the
            characters that are part of <varname>delimiters</varname>.
        </para>
    </refsection>
    <refsection>
        <title>Examples</title>
        <programlisting role="example"><![CDATA[ 
TOKENS = [];
token = strtok("A string of ,,tokens and some  more tokens"," r,");
TOKENS = [TOKENS,token];
while( token <> '' )
  token = strtok(" r,");
  TOKENS = [TOKENS,token];
end
disp(TOKENS);
 ]]></programlisting>
    </refsection>
    <refsection role="see also">
        <title>See Also</title>
        <simplelist type="inline">
            <member>
                <link linkend="strrchr">strrchr</link>
            </member>
            <member>
                <link linkend="strchr">strchr</link>
            </member>
        </simplelist>
    </refsection>
</refentry>