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POTrying to create a program to read a users input then break the array into seperate words are my pointers all valid?
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copied!<pre><code>char **findwords(char *str); int main() { int test; char words[100]; //an array of chars to hold the string given by the user char **word; //pointer to a list of words int index = 0; //index of the current word we are printing char c; cout << "die monster !"; //a loop to place the charecters that the user put in into the array do { c = getchar(); words[index] = c; } while (words[index] != '\n'); word = findwords(words); while (word[index] != 0) //loop through the list of words until the end of the list { printf("%s\n", word[index]); // while the words are going through the list print them out index ++; //move on to the next word } //free it from the list since it was dynamically allocated free(word); cin >> test; return 0; } char **findwords(char *str) { int size = 20; //original size of the list char *newword; //pointer to the new word from strok int index = 0; //our current location in words char **words = (char **)malloc(sizeof(char *) * (size +1)); //this is the actual list of words /* Get the initial word, and pass in the original string we want strtok() * * to work on. Here, we are seperating words based on spaces, commas, * * periods, and dashes. IE, if they are found, a new word is created. */ newword = strtok(str, " ,.-"); while (newword != 0) //create a loop that goes through the string until it gets to the end { if (index == size) { //if the string is larger than the array increase the maximum size of the array size += 10; //resize the array char **words = (char **)malloc(sizeof(char *) * (size +1)); } //asign words to its proper value words[index] = newword; //get the next word in the string newword = strtok(0, " ,.-"); //increment the index to get to the next word ++index; } words[index] = 0; return words; } </code></pre> <p>break the array into the individual words then print them out th </p>

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