A software failure due to an invalid string of characters is common in any software system, but it is a critical one in an embedded software written in C language because it frequently manipulates ...

Lines 24 and 25 use the wonderful strtok function to extract the fourth field from each line. strtok is a little different in that the first time you use it, you must supply the name of the character ...

I know many other languages use the eval() function to take a string argument and evaluate it as part of the source code (so you can run a function or assign a variable etc). I've seen it in PHP ...