parsing a line for words...

[FenixRising]

Hi,
I'm getting this when I compile my program. Then, when the program runs I get an error. I assume it is because I have the warning for this problem. How can get around this error.

warning C4172: returning address of local variable or temporary

#include <iostream>
#include <cstring>

using namespace std;


char* parse_words(char* pstr, int strp);


int main()
{
	char* strin("This is the string to be parsed");
	cout << " String is: " << strin << " Length is: " << strlen(strin) << "\n\nParsing...\n";

	/* cout << "Please enter a string to parse word-by-word: \n";
	cin >> strin;
	cout << "This is the string entered: " << strin << " \n.";
	*/
	//char * p(nullptr);
	char* p = parse_words(strin, strlen(strin));
	//char* p = parse(s1);
	while (p)
	{
		std::cout << p << "\n.";
		delete [] p;
		p = parse_words(nullptr, strlen(strin));
	}
	return 0;

}
char* parse_words(char* pstr, int strp)
{
	static int start(0);
	static int len(strp);
	cout << "Value of len: " << len << '\n';
	int lenpm(len);
	int pos(0);
	int x;
	char* pReturn(nullptr);
	int holdlen(20);
	char holdarea[20];

	cout << "Start start loop\n";
	for (start; start <= len; start++)
	{
		cout << "Start loop: \n";
		for (x = 0; x <= holdlen; x++)
		{ 
			holdarea[x] = ' ';
		}
		if (*pstr != ' ')
			while (*pstr != ' ')
			{
				holdarea[x] = *pstr;
				x++;
				*pstr++;
				start++;
			}
		return holdarea;
	}

	return pReturn;

}