traversing C string: get the last word of a string

Question

how would you get the last word of a string, starting from the \'\\0\' newline character to the rightmost space? For example, I could have something like this where str coul

Answer 1

The best way to do this is to take advantage of existing solutions. One such solution (to a much more general problem) is Perl Compatible Regular Expressions, an open-source regular expression library for C. So, you can match the string "my cat is yellow" with the regular expression \b(\w+)$ (expressed in C as "\b(\w+)$") and keep the first captured group, which is "yellow."