ein API direkt gibt es nicht, aber in der C Runtime :

The strtok() function reads string1 as a series of zero or more tokens, and string2 as the set of characters serving as delimiters of the tokens in string1. The tokens in string1 can be separated by one or more of the delimiters from string2. The tokens in string1 can be located by a series of calls to the strtok() function.