Split Strings Function | C Programming Example

[@basi0016]

You managed to explain in 17min what my teacher couldn't in 7 hours. thank you so much. I needed this for my project and couldn't continue without it, had been stuck on it for a whole week. aboslute grade saver

[@kacpergnys7166]

Dude I am doing a project for uni where one of the functions I need to write needs to do this. Been sitting on it for a whole day getting seg faults and this has finally worked. You are an absolute legend

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That's awesome I'm so glad to hear it helped you out Kacper! 😀

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[@natevaub]

Thank you for the amazing explanation. Recreating existing function is a very good exercice but sometime difficult and you help me a lot.

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You're welcome Nathan! :-)

[@VoidExistence]

Sir you are a king for this 👑 Segfault almost ended my existence. Subbed!

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Haha thank you I'm glad it helped you! 🙂 And welcome aboard!

[@EliskaM-q1z]

You are amazing, love your videos it is so well explained!! Every time I am looking for some functions I go straight to your videos :) Thank you for your time doing that!

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You’re very welcome, I’m glad you enjoy them! :-)

[@KeyboardSound1]

Thank you. This is exactly what i needed. Your explanations are among the best if not the best on the subject of c programming.

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You’re welcome, I’m glad the video was helpful for you! :-) And thank you for the kind feedback too!

[@thedapperfoxtrot]

Is there any issue with the fact that you're not checking for the success of malloc in the case of the array, and the arrays within the array? Like yes, you free it after in the main function, but what if somehow there's a failure during one of the substring allocations? Many colleagues have been telling me that I should the run a helper function that will free each allocated substring and the array containing them, and return 0. Thoughts on this? Out of the scope of this video?

[@tii04]

Thank you so much for this explanation!!!

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You’re very welcome Tiisetso! :-)

[@yogeshchauhan9401]

Is this similar to strtok function?

[@PortfolioCourses]

Yes a bit similar Yogesh in that they both involve breaking a string into smaller pieces based on delimiters... though notably this function is using dynamic memory allocation to give back an array of new strings on the heap, where as strtok() does not do this. :-)

[@yechezkelyirmaha5727]

Love it, but why do you use a int pointer instead of just the count as an int

[@nohaelhassan6724]

Thank you for the clear explanation! 🙌🏽❤️ My question is, can we use the free function in our created split function instead of main?

[@PortfolioCourses]

I'm glad you enjoyed the explanation! :-) The issue with that is that it would free the memory for the strings when we may still want to use it.

[@ManOwaRR1]

hi , is there anything similiar to that but for stl vector ? , thanks . great videos thanks for everytthing .

[@PortfolioCourses]

You're welcome Elie I'm glad you enjoyed the video! :-) I don't have a video on that topic unfortunately, but maybe something else online could help like this: www.geeksforgeeks.org/slicing-a-vector-in-c/

[@ManOwaRR1]

thank you , i have been trying to focus on what aspect , and master it and i choose std::vector , instead of std::array and c style array , learning the 3 of them for us beginners , becomes really confusing , and almost everyone appreciate and loves vectors as a contains , hopefully i made the right decision :) , thank you.

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I think it's a good idea to start with one concept at a time, but in programming we're often stuck learning a lot of things anyways. :-)

[@ManOwaRR1]

@@PortfolioCourses , yes thank you trying my best and still everything sounds confusing , some things logically should work , and they dont..., programing is very confusing in the begining :)

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I agree. :-)

[@alexantollin564]

how to modify this code in order to split string with sub-string not by characters , for example "The splitter quick fox splitter jumps splitter over the splitter lazy dog". I want split the string with the sub-string "splitter". Thank you in advance.

[@PortfolioCourses]

That’s a different problem maybe one day I can do a video on that topic. :-)

[@xoppi1092]

this is own strtok() ?

[@PortfolioCourses]

A little bit like strtok(), but it's more like .split() in JavaScript or Python. :-)

[@kingsleyokon7644]

I want to create a function that joins an array of strings on a separator characters, can i use this split function???

[@PortfolioCourses]

If you want to join an array of strings I think this video on creating a join function might help you more: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKauoomKl66Lhas. Good luck Kingsley! :-)

[@kingsleyokon7644]

@@PortfolioCourses Thanks I was able to solve my_join function. I have another task to create my_square using C language. Is there any project or resources that can be of help? Thanks

[@animedeathfire1724]

You could have passed a pointer to a struct of char * and size_t

[@PortfolioCourses]

Yep, that's true. :-)