Question

I’m trying to write a function that takes a line as a string and converts it into a Node.

Node convertLineToNode(string line){
    char lineC[] = line;
    Node *n = new Node();
    n->lastname=strtok(lineC," ");
    n->name=strtok(lineC," ");
    n->ID=strtok(lineC," ");
 }

However it doesn’t work properly. It expects the string line as char array. I couldn’t convert it into char array. Is there any solutions for my problem?

Answer 1

The C++ way would be this:

Node* convertLineToNode(std::string const & line)
{
   std::istringstream iss(line);
   Node *n = new Node();
   iss >> n->lastname
       >> n->name
       >> n->ID;
   return n;
}

consider returning a shared_pointer instead of a raw one