# Extracting a substring after identifying a marker

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/extracting-a-substring-after-identifying-a-marker/301459>\
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**Created:** [December 9, 2009, 5:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/extracting-a-substring-after-identifying-a-marker/301459 "2009-12-09T17:01:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 5:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/extracting-a-substring-after-identifying-a-marker/301459/1 "2009-12-09T17:01:32Z")

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Hi, I’m really new to C:  
just want to be able to read a string from a file, and then search for a particular word, and having found that word, extract the next string that is delimited by spaces

ie:

kjsdiojfir word stringtoextract aohoidhhr

thanks,