Simple question:
If i have a line in an input file that looks looks like:
Hello#Great#Day#Today
how can I scan in each word individually as its own array, in other words tell C to stop scanning when it reaches the # character and then go in the next iteration of the loop to scan the next word as a separate array?
This is assuming you are reading through stdin. Definitely take a look at @Whoz kick start approach as well (very similar to this).
What you would want to do is create a dynamic array and populate it with every byte read through stdin. You would then want to create an array of character pointers that will point to the first character in every "word", where you define a word as every character before a '#' character (delimiter). You would then iterate through that array of characters and populate the array of character pointers with the memory addresses of the first character in each word.