Here is an example that illustrates that strtok() will work on tabs or spaces. The key is to pass in NULL on the all but the first call to strtok().
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
char buffer[1024];
int rv = sprintf(buffer, "a string\ttokenize.");
char *token = strtok(buffer, " \t");
int i = 0;
printf("cnt token\n");
printf("==========\n");
while (token) {
printf("%2d %s\n", i++, token);
token = strtok(NULL, " \t");
}
return 0;
}
output from above program is as follows below.
cnt token
==========
0 a
1 string
2 tokenize.