Re: convert string into an array

From:
 James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:07:28 -0000
Message-ID:
<1183536448.703333.102290@n60g2000hse.googlegroups.com>
On Jul 3, 10:46 pm, "Jim Langston" <tazmas...@rocketmail.com> wrote:

I would use a stringstream.


Just curious, but why a stringstream, and not an istringstream?

    [...]

    std::string str_array = "{201,23,240,56,23,45,34,23}";
    std::stringstream Buffer;
    Buffer << str_array;


Why those two lines, instead of simply:

    std::istringstream Buffer( str_array ) ;

    char Trash;
    Buffer >> Trash; // Throw away (


Throw away, or verify, as a syntax check? (In my experience,
you can never verify input too much.)

    int Value;
    std::vector<int> Data;
    while ( Buffer >> Value )


    while ( Buffer >> Value && Trash != '}' )

    {


And

    if ( Trash != (Data.empty() ? '{' : ',') ) {
        Buffer.setstate( std::ios::failbit ) ;
    }

here.

        Data.push_back( Value );
        Buffer >> Trash; // Throw away , or )
    }


And a final error check:

    if ( ! (Buffer >> std::ws && Buffer.get() == EOF ) {
        error ...
    }

    // Display vector data
    for ( std::vector<int>::iterator it = Data.begin(); it != Data.en=

d();

++it )
        std::cout << *it << " ";
}


(But I like your basic algorithm better than the one I
suggested.)

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