Re: [Boost-users] Newbie String Splitting Question

From: Seth Nielson (sethjn_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-07-24 15:53:51

No, that won't suit my needs. Did you read my message? I said I need 
MARK to be a substring, not a single character.

-- Seth N.

Rush Manbert wrote:
> Seth Nielson wrote:
>   
>> Hi
>>
>> Two questions related to string tokenization.
>>
>> 1. Which is preferred? using "split" or the "tokenizer class"?
>> 2. Both of these methods seem geared towards splitting on characters 
>> rather than splitting on substrings. Is there yet another method that is 
>> preferred for splitting a string on an exact substring? If I want to 
>> split "I<mark>Am<mark>A<mark>Test" into I, Am, A, Test, what is the best 
>> way? It seems that for split I'll have to write my own predicate, and 
>> for tokenizer, I'll have to write my own tokenizerFunction.
>>
>>     
>
> For split(), and simple <mark> cases, you can use existing predicates.
> For instance:
>    boost::split (splitVec, submitData, boost::algorithm::is_any_of (","));
>
> which makes it very simple to tokenize a string. I have used this 
> approach in a multi-level parsing algorithm. I don't know how the 
> performance stacks up against other approaches, but it serves my purpose 
> and I can still understand it when I go back 6 months later and look at 
> it again. :-)
>
> - Rush
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