More likely environment variables that can't point to two different places on the filesystem at the same time :) I'm Borland from ages past, but found my self in an MS shop using VS, which I hadn't...

The strtok() approach will work, just with a little added overhead - specifically, tracking the size of tokens you have already passed and either used or discarded.

For writing the code, any text editor will do, but a text editor that is designed to work with C/C++ would work better simply for things like syntax highlighting (which shows you visually the...