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How do I tokenize a string in C++?

strtok function is not thread safe. Microsoft has Windows-specific strtok_s and CString::Tokenize safe functions. Is there cross-platform CRT/C++ library way to do this without manual coding?

Answer 1

boost::split. http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_51_0/doc/html/string_algo/reference.html#header.boost.algorithm.string.split_hpp

example of usage

#include <vector>
#include <string>
#include <boost/algorithm/string.hpp>

int main()
{
   const std::string s = "hello and what";
   std::vector<std::string> v;
   boost::split(v, s, [](char c) { return c == ' '; }, boost::token_compress_on);
   for (const auto& str : v)
   {
      std::cout << str << std::endl;
   }
}

http://liveworkspace.org/code/3dfc9ee9c8497741f9976ac41a14a390

Or use boost::tokenizer