Split string in C every white space

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Published on 2010-12-22T20:15:32Z Indexed on 2010/12/22 20:54 UTC
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I want to write a program in C that displays each word of a whole sentence (taken as input) at a seperate line. This is what i have done so far:


void manipulate(char *buffer);
int get_words(char *buffer);

int main(){
    char buff[100];

    printf("sizeof %d\nstrlen %d\n", sizeof(buff), strlen(buff));   // Debugging reasons

    bzero(buff, sizeof(buff));

    printf("Give me the text:\n");
    fgets(buff, sizeof(buff), stdin);

    manipulate(buff);
    return 0;
}

int get_words(char *buffer){                                        // Function that gets the word count, by counting the spaces.
    int count;
    int wordcount = 0;
    char ch;

    for (count = 0; count < strlen(buffer); count ++){
        ch = buffer[count];
        if((isblank(ch)) || (buffer[count] == '\0')){                   // if the character is blank, or null byte add 1 to the wordcounter
            wordcount += 1;
        }
    }
    printf("%d\n\n", wordcount);
    return wordcount;
}

void manipulate(char *buffer){
    int words = get_words(buffer);
    char *newbuff[words];
    char *ptr;
    int count = 0;
    int count2 = 0;
    char ch = '\n';

    ptr = buffer;
    bzero(newbuff, sizeof(newbuff));

    for (count = 0; count < 100; count ++){
        ch = buffer[count];
        if (isblank(ch) || buffer[count] == '\0'){
            buffer[count] = '\0';
            if((newbuff[count2] = (char *)malloc(strlen(buffer))) == NULL) {
                printf("MALLOC ERROR!\n");
                exit(-1);
            }
            strcpy(newbuff[count2], ptr);
            printf("\n%s\n",newbuff[count2]);
            ptr = &buffer[count + 1];
            count2 ++;
        }
    }
}

Although the output is what i want, i have really many black spaces after the final word displayed, and the malloc() returns NULL so the MALLOC ERROR! is displayed in the end. I can understand that there is a mistake at my malloc() implementation but i do not know what it is.

Is there another more elegant - generally better way to do it?

Thanks in advance.

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