Re: [Boost-users] [stringalgo] Tokenizer with string delimiters?

From: Pavol Droba (droba_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-19 02:04:32

Hi, Stefan

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 04:43:59PM +0100, Stefan Slapeta wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> please could anybody tell if it's possible to use split() to tokenize a 
> string where the token delimiters are strings of
> 
> - n characters, e.g. "\r\n"
> - m..n characters, e.g. "\n" _or_ "\r\n"
> 
> If not, are there alternatives?
> 

It is possible and quite easy with string_algo. Instead of split() try
to use split_iterator and as a finder use first_finder().
You may even try to use regex_finder.

You can find some more information in the docs.

HTH,

Pavol