Question

How do retrieve the first word of a string in C++?

For example,

"abcde fghijk"

I would like to retrieve abcde. Also what do I do to retrieve fghijk? Is there a convenient function for this or should I just code it?

Answer 1

Use stringstreams (<sstream> header)

std::string str ="abcde fghijk";
std::istringstream iss(str);
std::string first, second;
iss >> first >> second;