Question

I have been looking online without success for something that does the following. I have some ugly string returned as part of a Betfair SOAP response that uses a number of different char delimiters to identify certain parts of the information. What makes it awkward is that they are not always just one character length. Specifically, I need to split a string at ':' characters, but only after I have first replaced all instances of "\\:" with my personal flag "-COLON-" (which must then be replaced again AFTER the first split).

Basically I need all portions of a string like this

 "6(2.5%,11\:08)~true~5.0~1162835723938~"

to become

 "6(2.5%,11-COLON-08)~true~5.0~1162835723938~

In perl it is (from memory)

 $mystring =~ s/\\:/-COLON-/g; 

I have been looking for some time at the functions of std::string, specifically std::find and std::replace and I know that I can code up how to do what I need using these basic functions, but I was wondering if there was a function in the standard library (or elsewhere) that already does this??

Answer 1

boost::replace_all(input_string, "\\:", "-COLON-");