equivalent to PHP explode or PERL split

Hi , with my C more than a little rusty


how do I take a string and <php_version>explode()</php_version> it by a known delimiter?

I am trying to do the following (pseudo-code)

//where argv[1] is a string "value1::value2::value3"

//php example'
$bits= explode("::",argv[1]);

put ( bundle, "CLIENTID", $bits[0]);
put ( bundle, "CARDDATA", $bits[1]);
put ( bundle, "CARDEXPIRYDATE", $bits[2]);
//etc//


any pointers appreciated

strtok(), though it's not as easy to use. You basically pass it a set of delimiters and it breaks down the string into "tokens."