Implementation of C split() function

split.c

short split(char string[], char * words[])
{
	const char separators[] = ",; :";
	char * token;

	short i = 0;

	token = strtok(string, separators);
	while (token != NULL)
	{
		words[i] = token;
		token = strtok(NULL, separators);

		i++;
	}

	return i;
}