How do I take apart a string and get individual characters/words?

From: derrick (ragnarok1003_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/16/04 

Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 04:24:16 GMT

I used to program text RPG's in C back in high school, but I was very crude
at it and only learned what I needed to get the job done. I am now about to
graduate college with a degree in English and have had an interest in the
structure of language. In order to begin with my little program, I need to
be able to take a string like "The dog jumped." and be able to take the
first word from the sentence and assign it to a string, such as word1, then
skip the blank space and assign dog to the string word2 and then skip once
again and assign jumped to the string word3. I would give you some code I
was working with to try to do this, but I would rather save your stomachs
from hurting too much.... the laughter would be too much to bear =) But I
have attempted it on my own, and just need a little jump in the right
direction, if not just an all out solution. I appreciate any help you can
provide.

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