Re: Help splitting a simple date string

From:
"Alf P. Steinbach" <alfps@start.no>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:58:45 +0100
Message-ID:
<13spejdtioq3eee@corp.supernews.com>
* yogi_bear_79:

I have a simple string (i.e. February 27, 2008) that I need to split
into three parts. The month, day, and year. Splitting into a string
array would work, and I could convert day and years to integers
later. I've bene looking around, and everything I see seems more
complicated than it should be! Help!


Many ways. One has already been illustrated by Daniel T else-thread,
using built-in std::string functions. The simplest would possibly be to
use a regular expression, but then you need to know about those.

Somewhere in the middle (disclaimer: code not touched by compiler's hands):

   std::vector<std::string> splitOnWhitespace( std::string const& s )
   {
       std::istringstream stream( s );
       std::string component;
       std::vector<std::string> result;

       while( s >> component ) { result.push_back( component ); }
       return result;
   }

Here I just let delimiters such as that comma hang on. They'll be
removed by conversion to numeric later.

Cheers, & hth.,

- Alf

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