spliting string.

[123scope]

Hi readers, I have got a string
a[ ] = {Name surname ...... };

I want to split the string into 2 the first string will contain the Name and the
second string will contain the rest after the surname, can anyone please
suggest how to do this.

thx

[myusernotyours]

It depends on how the string is presented. I assume you are using C and Name and Surname are separated by a space.

You could loop through the characters in the string starting at index 0. and search for the space character. Meanwhile you are storing the characters you find in another string. Once you find a space character, you have the Name. By continuing to the end of the string which is denoted by the Null terminator i.e '\0' you will have the surname.

By the way, a string in C is just an array of characters thats why you are able to loop through them.

Regards,

Alex.

[123scope]

here is my code, can you find any mistakes please??? I cannot chop from the second word.

OUTPUT
Input: hello there

hello there
hello there
hello there
hello there
h
e
l
l
o

t
h
e
r
e


h e l l o => first string
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

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

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
char b[]={};
char b2[]={};
char b3[]={};
char searchword[]={};
char wordmary[]={};
int i=0;
int j;
fgets(b, 15, stdin);
//printf("%s", b);

for(i=0; i<=strlen(b); i++){
b2[i]=b[i];
b3[i]=b[i];
}

printf("%s", b);
printf("%s", b2);
printf("%s", b3);

printf("%c\n", b[0]);
printf("%c\n", b[1]);
printf("%c\n", b[2]);
printf("%c\n", b[3]);
printf("%c\n", b[4]);
printf("%c\n", b[5]);
printf("%c\n", b[6]);
printf("%c\n", b[7]);
printf("%c\n", b[8]);
printf("%c\n", b[9]);
printf("%c\n", b[10]);
printf("%c\n", b[11]);


for(i=0; i<=5; i++){
printf("%c ", b3[i]); //1st print
}
printf("\n");

for(i=0; i<=5; i++){
searchword[i]=b3[i];
}
searchword[6]='\0';


for(j=7; j<='\0'; j++){
for(i=0; i=='\0'; i++){
wordmary[i]=b3[j];
printf("%c\n", wordmary[j]);
}
}
//printf("%s\n", searchword);


return 0;
}

[code green]

You are not searching for a space as myusernotyours suggested.
And the code is littered with magic numbers which makes reading difficult.

As this is a char string can you make use of strtok?

[jkmyoung]

for(j=7; j<='\0'; j++){
I think you mean the character at index j is not '\0'

[endazyar]

i think you should use strncpy or strtok functions..Othe rwise your implementation will be too much complicated.