Pastable version of A Java-like function split

<pre class='prettyprint' language='c'>char **split (char *string, char sep, char escape) {

char **ret = NULL;
    char *p = string;
    size_t i = 0;
    int nParts = 0;
    size_t len = strlen (string);

ret = (char **) malloc (sizeof (char *));
    if (ret == NULL)
        return NULL;

ret[0] = NULL;

while (i &lt; len) {

// Jump the separator characters
        while ((p[i] == sep) &amp;&amp; (i &lt; len))
            i++;

// A non separator character is found
        char c = sep;

// Check if it's a escape character
        if ((i &lt; len) &amp;&amp; (p[i] == escape)) {
            i++;

// If it's the last character, exit
            if (i &gt;= len)
                break;

c = escape;
        }

// If it's not the end of the string
        if (i &lt; len) {

char **tmpList = (char **) realloc (ret, (nParts + 2) * sizeof (char *));
            if (tmpList == NULL)
                goto Error;

ret = tmpList;
            tmpList = NULL;

ret[nParts + 1] = NULL;
            ret[nParts] = (char *) malloc (sizeof (char));
            if (ret[nParts] == NULL)
                goto Error;

int j = 0;
            while ((p[i] != c) &amp;&amp; (i &lt; len)) {
                ret[nParts][j] = p[i];

i++;
                j++;

char *tmpStr = (char *) realloc (ret[nParts], (j + 1) * sizeof (char));
                if (tmpStr == NULL)
                    goto Error;

ret[nParts] = tmpStr;
                tmpStr = NULL;
            }

ret[nParts][j] = '\0';
            nParts++;

i++;
        }
    }

return ret;

Error:

for (i = 0; ret[i] != NULL; i++)
        free (ret[i]);
    free (ret);

return NULL;
}</pre>
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