astChrSplit

Extract words from a supplied string

Description:

This function extracts all space-separated words form the supplied string and returns them in an array of dynamically allocated strings.

Synopsis

char ∗∗astChrSplit( const char ∗str, int ∗n )

Parameters:

str
Pointer to the string to be split.
n
Address of an int in which to return the number of words returned.

Returned Value

astChrSplit()
A pointer to a dynamically allocated array containing " ∗n" elements. Each element is a pointer to a dynamically allocated character string containing a word extracted from the supplied string. Each of these words will have no leading or trailing white space.

Notes:

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