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+#include "litshell.c"
+/**
+ * tokenize - function returns an array of string based on given delimiter
+ *
+ * @str: string to be tokenized
+ * @delim: delimiter seperating the substrings
+ *
+ * Return: An array of strings
+ */
+char **tokenize(const char *str, const char *delim)
+{
+	static char *array_token[1024]; /* Declare an array to store substrings */
+	int x = 0; /* Index of array of strings */
+	char *temp_str; /* Save str in temp_str */ 
+
+	if (str != NULL)
+	{
+		temp_str = strdup(str); /* if str not null assign value to temp_str */
+	}
+
+	if (delim == NULL)
+	{
+		delim = " \t"; /* If delim is NULL assume space and tabs as delim */
+	}
+	char *token = strtok(temp_str, delim); /* Store first token */
+
+	while (token != NULL)
+	{
+		array_token[x] = token; /* Store first token in index 0 of array */
+		token = strtok(NULL, delim);
+		x++; /* Increment index of array of string */
+	}
+	return (array_token);
+}