Question

I need to split string by line.
I used to do in the following way:

int doSegment(char *sentence, int segNum)
{
assert(pSegmenter != NULL);
Logger &log = Logger::getLogger();
char delims[] = "\n";
char *line = NULL;
if (sentence != NULL)
{
    line = strtok(sentence, delims);
    while(line != NULL)
    {
        cout << line << endl;
        line = strtok(NULL, delims);
    }
}
else
{
    log.error("....");
}
return 0;
}

I input “we are one.\nyes we are.” and invoke the doSegment method. But when i debugging, i found the sentence parameter is “we are one.\\nyes we are”, and the split failed. Can somebody tell me why this happened and what should i do. Is there anyway else i can use to split string in C++. thanks !

Answer 1

I’d like to use std::getline or std::string::find to go through the string.
below code demonstrates getline function

int doSegment(char *sentence)
{
  std::stringstream ss(sentence);
  std::string to;

  if (sentence != NULL)
  {
    while(std::getline(ss,to,'\n')){
      cout << to <<endl;
    }
  }

return 0;
}