How to print Nth word of a C char array?

Question

How do i print the Nth word in a character array.
For example.

char mynames[15] = "David Holmes";

How do i print the "David" only or the "Holmes" only.

If it was Python, i would:

mynames = "David Holmes"
tolist = mynames.split()
print (tolist[0])

But since in C a string is already an array right, so i figured there is need to convert it to a array again 😕

Answer 1

Read this small short article about strtok in c (used for splitting a string)

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-split-a-string-in-cc-JUMP_LINK__&&__python__&&__JUMP_LINK-and-java/amp/

Answer 2

you can use strtok() to split in c.
it takes a string and a delimiter.
delimiter in this case is " " space.

https://code.sololearn.com/cSm9Y3tbQEOa/?ref=app

in the example I printed each word on a new line, you can instead append each word to an array and print them like in your python example.