Using string libs for Car and Cdr

[Peter C. Bahrs]

Given a balanced parenthesized list :   ( ( a b ) (d (e ) e) )
in a char *buffer...

Besides looping through each buffer[i], has anyone suggestions or
examples using string functions on how to implement :
   char *c = car(buffer),  *d = (cdr (buffer)), *e = second(buffer)
:  c == ( a b ),  d == ( (d (e ) e) )), e == (d (e ) e) 

?
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