C / C++ / MFC

#include "stdafx.h"
#include "stdlib.h"

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

// This program will parse the string, and place each of the tokens, or substrings
// into the array vars.  When the string has been tokenized, the vars will be printed
// to the screen.

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
	char str[] = "Let us get out of here, NOW!";
	char *vars[10];

	int index = 0;
	//C: Specify the string to parse on the first call to strtok.
	//   The second parameter denotes the delimiter token to search for.
	//   We will search for a space " " and a comma ","
	vars[index] = strtok(str, " ,");
	//C: strtok returns NULL of there are no other tokens.
	while (vars[index] && 
		   index < 10 /*There is only space for ten strings.*/)
	{
		index++;
		//C: On each call after the first to strtok, you can pass in a NULL
		//   to the first parameter and it will keep searching the original
		//   string that you passed it.
		vars[index] = strtok(NULL, " ,");
	}

	//C: Print all of the tokens to the screen.
	int token;
	for (token = 0; token < index; token++)
	{
		cout << vars[token] << endl;
	}
	
	return 0;
}

char originalStr = "This is the original string.";
char *tempStr;

// Get the length of the original string.
int iLen = strlen(originalStr);
// Allocate memory for the string, +1 for the terminating NULL.
tempStr = new char[iLen+1];
// Check the return value, as long as the new pointer is not NULL, then the allocation succeeded.
if (NULL == tempStr)
{
  // The allocation failed.
}

// use your temp string.
char* var1 = strtok(tempStr, " ");
...

// delete the memory in the temp string when you are done.
delete[] tempStr;

#ifdef ATLASSERT
#undef ATLASSERT
#endif

#define ATLASSERT ....