stringstream with escape characters

I've been trying to incorporate escape characters into stringstream, but I cannot figure out how to implement this correctly for the life of me. At the moment, I cannot even compile the program because of an "unknown escape sequence" error.

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>
#include <string>
#include <vector>

using std::string;

int main(void) {
        std::vector<string> tokens;
        string str("This sentence \t should be split up into individual words except for this\ one");
        string buf;
        std::stringstream ss(str);

        while (ss >> buf)
                tokens.push_back(buf);

        for (int i = 0; i < tokens.size(); i++) {
                std::cout << tokens[i] << std::endl;
        }
}

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Ideally, the output should be:
This
sentence
should
be
split
up
into
individual
words
except
for
this one

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

The compiler doesn't understand what to do with the "\ " sequence in the string literal.

There's no trivially easy way to do what you suggest... Boost has a string tokenizer that would allow you to treat anything within double quotes as a single token.