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C programming strtok issue

I am using strtok to extract 2 words from a string names[result]. I want to get the first value from the strtok and stored it into a char array named lastName and the second value into a char array named firstName. However I got an invalid initializer error for 2 lines which are indicated by the arrow when I compiled my code. How do I resolve my problem?

char *p = NULL;
p = strtok(names[result]," ");
char lastName[50] = p; <---
p = strtok(NULL, " ");
char firstName[50] = p; <---
printf("%s %s\n",firstName,lastName);
Solution

  • strtok gives the pointer to the tokenized string.

    char lastName[50] = p; Isn't really a good thing that you are doing there. Should use strncpy() to copy the string, or if only want the pointer, then should store in another pointer.