// split a string into its words and load them into a vector

#include <cstring> 
#include <iostream>
#include <vector> 

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    char str[] = "This is a sample string.";
    char *pch;
    char delimiter[] = " ,.";  // space comma period

    // create a string vector to hold the words
    vector<string> words;
    
    // get the first word/token
    pch = strtok(str, delimiter);
    while (pch != NULL)
    {
        // load the words vector
        words.push_back(pch);
        // next word
        pch = strtok(NULL, delimiter);
    }
    
    // test the words vector
    cout << "The string had " << words.size() << " words:\n";
    for (int k = 0; k < words.size(); k++)
    {
        cout << words[k] << endl;  
    }
            
    cin.get();  // wait for key press
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;  // optional
}

int i;
char **blah;
// First, allocate memory for blah (this is an array of char * pointers!)  
char **blah = (char **)malloc(sizeof(char*) * numStrings);

for(i = 0; i < numStrings; i++)
{
  blah[i] = (char*)malloc(sizeof(char) * lengthofstring);
  memset(blah[i], 0, sizeof(char) * lengthofstring); 
  memcpy(blah[i], sourcestring, sizeof(char) * lengthofstring);
}

// Now, free the strings in reverse order of the allocations.

for(i = 0; i < numStrings; i++)
{
  free(blah[i]);
}
free(blah);

while(something())
{
  szSize += strlen(new_stuff);
  realloc(myArray, zSize2);
  sprintf(myArray, "%s,%s", myArray, new_stuff);
}