c - Parse string into argv/argc

Question

Is there a way in C to parse a piece of text and obtain values for argv and argc, as if the text had been passed to an application on the command line?

This doesn't have to work on Windows, just Linux - I also don't care about quoting of arguments.

Answer 1

I'm surprised nobody has provided the simplest answer using standard POSIX functionality:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/wordexp.html