Parse string into array based on spaces or “double quotes strings”

Question

Im trying to take a user input string and parse is into an array called char *entire_line[100]; where each word is put at a different index of the array but if a part of the str

Answer 1

Torek's parts of parsing code are excellent but require little more work to use.

For my own purpose, I finished c function.
Here I share my work that is based on Torek's code.

#include 
#include 
#include 
size_t split(char *buffer, char *argv[], size_t argv_size)
{
    char *p, *start_of_word;
    int c;
    enum states { DULL, IN_WORD, IN_STRING } state = DULL;
    size_t argc = 0;

    for (p = buffer; argc < argv_size && *p != '\0'; p++) {
        c = (unsigned char) *p;
        switch (state) {
        case DULL:
            if (isspace(c)) {
                continue;
            }

            if (c == '"') {
                state = IN_STRING;
                start_of_word = p + 1; 
                continue;
            }
            state = IN_WORD;
            start_of_word = p;
            continue;

        case IN_STRING:
            if (c == '"') {
                *p = 0;
                argv[argc++] = start_of_word;
                state = DULL;
            }
            continue;

        case IN_WORD:
            if (isspace(c)) {
                *p = 0;
                argv[argc++] = start_of_word;
                state = DULL;
            }
            continue;
        }
    }

    if (state != DULL && argc < argv_size)
        argv[argc++] = start_of_word;

    return argc;
}
void test_split(const char *s)
{
    char buf[1024];
    size_t i, argc;
    char *argv[20];

    strcpy(buf, s);
    argc = split(buf, argv, 20);
    printf("input: '%s'\n", s);
    for (i = 0; i < argc; i++)
        printf("[%u] '%s'\n", i, argv[i]);
}
int main(int ac, char *av[])
{
    test_split("\"some text in quotes\" plus four simple words p\"lus something strange\"");
    return 0;
}

See program output:

input: '"some text in quotes" plus four simple words p"lus something strange"'
[0] 'some text in quotes'
[1] 'plus'
[2] 'four'
[3] 'simple'
[4] 'words'
[5] 'p"lus'
[6] 'something'
[7] 'strange"'