Re: [Boost-users] [string_algo] replace string with tokens

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [string_algo] replace string with tokens
From: Boris Schaeling (boris_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-06-03 03:58:41

On Sun, 31 May 2009 10:15:22 +0200, Michael Schuster <schuster_at_[hidden]>  
wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm new to string_algo and have the following problem:
>
> I have string like
>
> 	a+3*sin(b)
>
> and want to replace a by a different string e.g. Alpha and b by Beta and  
> sin
> by cos so that
>
> 	Alpha+3*cos(Beta)
>
> is the result.
>
> So tokens would be "+*()"
>
> The replace command works with spaces, but I think this should be  
> possible
> with string_algo, too?

I'm not sure what you mean with 'replace command'.  
boost::algorithm::replace_all() simply replaces a substring with another.  
If you mean boost::algorithm::split() you can pass a predicate as the  
third parameter (boost::algorithm::is_punct() might help).

Boris