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Title:	STR06-C. Do not assume that strtok() leaves the parse string unchanged
Author:	glook	Apr 07, 2007
Last Changed by:	Anirban Gangopadhyay	Oct 01, 2025
Tiny Link: (useful for email)	https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/x/v9UxBQ
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SEI CERT C Coding Standard (1)     Page: MSC24-C. Do not use deprecated or obsolescent functions

Parent Page     Page: Rec. 07. Characters and Strings (STR)

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• compass/rose
• android-applicable
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• recommendation
• str

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    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2025a/bugfinder/re…
    https://www.kb.cert.org/vulnotes/bymetric?searchview&query=…
    www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man3/strtok.3.htm…
    cwe.mitre.org/
    cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/464.html
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/Polyspace+Bug…
    https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?p…

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