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Old 01-14-2010
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How can I read from the user input and store each word individually

for example

word1 word2 number1 number2 word 3 number3

server 192.25.1.1 55555 22 logged 15

I need to store and manipulate each word/number individually and these inputs are entered by the user.
# 2  
Old 01-14-2010
Shell has positional parameters - you can just read them with read into variables or address each separated by a blank with $1,$2,$3, ... or just get them all with $* or $@ and parse them.
# 3  
Old 01-14-2010
I'm new in C, so could you please elaborate.
# 4  
Old 01-14-2010
The above answer was for shell script since you didn't say you were using C.

What have you tried already?
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Old 01-14-2010
Oh absolutely my fault sorry lol. I thought this was posted in an appropriate forum for shell scripting, not in https://www.unix.com/high-level-programming/.

Anyhow for C, I'd try to parse the input from argc and argv. For reading input I would take fgets() but I am not very educated at C so better waiting for other answers. Sorry again for misleading.
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Old 01-14-2010
This may or may not do what you want. It parses words from stdin line by line and cuts them up with strtok.

Code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main(void)
{
        char buf[512];
        while(fgets(buf, 512, stdin) != NULL)
        {
                char *t=strtok(buf, " ");
                while(t != NULL)
                {
                        printf("%s\n", t);
                        t=strtok(NULL, " ");
                }
        }

        return(0);
}

# 7  
Old 01-14-2010
thanks, but what's the difference between this code and using argc and argv arguments in main? is argc for numbers and argv for characters? will it do the work?
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