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traversing C string: get the last word of a string

how would you get the last word of a string, starting from the '\0' newline character to the rightmost space? For example, I could have something like this where str could be assigned a string:

char str[80];
str = "my cat is yellow";

How would I get yellow?

Solution

  • Something like this:

    char *p = strrchr(str, ' ');
if (p && *(p + 1))
    printf("%s\n", p + 1);