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+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024, Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+
+
+#include <config.h>
+
+#include "string/strtok/strsep2arr.h"
+
+#include <stddef.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+
+
+extern inline ssize_t strsep2arr(char *s, const char *restrict delim,
+ size_t n, char *a[restrict n]);
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+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024, Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+
+
+#ifndef SHADOW_INCLUDE_LIB_STRING_STRTOK_STRSEP2ARR_H_
+#define SHADOW_INCLUDE_LIB_STRING_STRTOK_STRSEP2ARR_H_
+
+
+#include <config.h>
+
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <stddef.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+
+#include "attr.h"
+#include "sizeof.h"
+
+
+#define STRSEP2ARR(s, delim, a) \
+( \
+ strsep2arr(s, delim, countof(a), a) == countof(a) ? 0 : -1 \
+)
+
+
+ATTR_ACCESS(read_write, 1) ATTR_ACCESS(write_only, 4, 3)
+ATTR_STRING(1) ATTR_STRING(2)
+inline ssize_t strsep2arr(char *s, const char *restrict delim,
+ size_t n, char *a[restrict n]);
+
+
+// string separate to array-of-strings
+// strsep(3) a string into an array of strings.
+// Return the number of fields in the string, or -1 on error.
+inline ssize_t
+strsep2arr(char *s, const char *restrict delim, size_t n, char *a[restrict n])
+{
+ size_t i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < n && s != NULL; i++)
+ a[i] = strsep(&s, delim);
+
+ if (s != NULL) {
+ errno = E2BIG;
+ return -1;
+ }
+
+ return i;
+}
+
+
+#endif // include guard