You could used simple strtok() function (*)From here. Note that tokens are created on delimiters
#include
#include
int main ()
{
char str[] ="- This is a string";
char * pch;
printf ("Splitting string \"%s\" into tokens:\n",str);
pch = strtok (str," ,.-");
while (pch != NULL)
{
printf ("%s\n",pch);
pch = strtok (NULL, " ,.-");
}
return 0;
}