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#include <stdio.h>
char **ExtractWords(char *sentence, int *numWords);
char *FirstWord(char **sentPtr);
int CountWords(char *sentence);
char **ExtractWords(char *sentence, int *numWords)
{
char **result;
register int index;
(*numWords) = CountWords(sentence);
result = (char **) malloc((*numWords)*sizeof(char *));
for ( index = 0; index < (*numWords); index++ )
result[index] = FirstWord(&sentence);
return result;
}
char *FirstWord(char **sentPtr)
{
char *start, *end, *result, *ptr;
/* skip spaces */
while ( **sentPtr == ' ' )
(*sentPtr)++;
/* find start and end of first word */
start = *sentPtr;
end = start;
while ( (**sentPtr != ' ') && (**sentPtr != '\0') )
{
(*sentPtr)++;
end++;
}
/* allocate space and copy characters to new string */
result = (char *) malloc(sizeof(char)*(1+(end-start)/sizeof(char)));
ptr = result;
while ( start != end )
{
*ptr = *start;
ptr++;
start++;
}
*ptr = '\0';
return result;
}
int CountWords(char *sentence)
{
int numWords = 0;
while ( *sentence != '\0' )
{
while ( *sentence == ' ' )
sentence++;
if ( *sentence == '\0' )
break;
numWords++;
while ( (*sentence != ' ') && (*sentence != '\0') )
sentence++;
}
return numWords;
}
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