C: creating array of strings from delimited source string

Question

What would be an efficient way of converting a delimited string into an array of strings in C (not C++)? For example, I might have:

char *input = \"valgrind         


        

Answer 1

What's about something like:

char* string = "valgrind --leak-check=yes --track-origins=yes ./a.out";
char** args = (char**)malloc(MAX_ARGS*sizeof(char*));
memset(args, 0, sizeof(char*)*MAX_ARGS);

char* curToken = strtok(string, " \t");

for (int i = 0; curToken != NULL; ++i)
{
  args[i] = strdup(curToken);
  curToken = strtok(NULL, " \t");
}