A somewhat misguided c-implementation of the common split()-function present in most languages

explode.c

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

int explode(char*** ret, char* instr, char* delim)
{
	char* str = strdup(instr);

	char** arr = (char**)malloc(sizeof(char*) * (strlen(instr)+1));
	int count = 0;
	char* result = NULL;
	result = strtok(str, delim);
	while (result != NULL) {
		arr[count] = strdup(result);
		count++;
		result = strtok(NULL, delim);
	}

	arr = (char**)realloc(arr, sizeof(char*) * (count+1));

	*ret = arr;

	free(str);

	return count;
}

int main(void)
{
	char* teststr = ":aderyn privmsg #c0la :hej på er allihop";
	char** outbuf;

	int n = explode(&outbuf, teststr, " ");

	int i;
	for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
		printf("%s\n", outbuf[i]);
		free(outbuf[i]);
	}

	free(outbuf);

	return 0;
}