char to detect space

[gamodg]

char *p=" My name is xyz ";
char *q;
q=strstr(p,"name");//it will return ptr at n of name
now if i want to extract "name" from p i will increment the ptr q and put it in a char array say str[] but
how will i check for space after name so that it stops and shouldn include
is xyz
i tried if(*q=="") but it gave an error

[Ancient Dragon]

>>i tried if(*q=="") but it gave an error
use single quotes with a space between them, like this: if(*q==' ')

[~s.o.s~]

Or something like this:

if (isspace (*p))
{
    cout << "The character is a space character";
}

[gamodg]

thanks a lot for this immense help
can u plz tell alternative of while(!file.eof())
as it gives warning to check the end of file for manipulating file object

[John A]

Check the return value of your read function like it describes at the end of this article:
http://www.gidnetwork.com/b-58.html
(Basically feof() is the same as file.eof().)

[edit] Now I'm confused: are we in C or C++? When I saw you using strstr and char arrays, I assumed we were in C. But file.eof() is C++. Could you say so we know what we're trying to do?