String splitting algorithm help

Hi,

Theres probably a really simple way of doing this but i cant work it out :\.

I have a string which contains this sort of data: "group1\r\ngroup2\r\ngroup3\r\n..."

I'm using \r\n as the splitting characters, and extracting each substring into a vector array of strings, although i don't know if thats the best structure to use? I cant use a standard array, as i don't know the number of elements.

Anyway heres the code i have so far (probably complete rubbish)

glist is the string with the data.

Code:

        vector<string> group_list;
	int pos_a = 0;
	int pos_b = 0;
	
	for(int i = 0; i < glist.length(); i++)
	{
		pos_b = glist.find("\n", pos_b);
		
		string temp(glist.substr(pos_a, pos_b));
		group_list.push_back(temp);
		pos_a = pos_b + 1;
	}

I know thats fairly wrong, but im unsure how to disregard the \r\n characters completely?

Maybe i would be better converting it to a char array and working with that?

Thanks for any advice,
Jack

Is there a reason you are using \r and \n? Why not just \n? If you could use \n only, then I would just use an istringstream initialized with glist and getline in a loop to find each line. That will discard all the newlines and you can add each line to the vector. It's possible that it will work with \r\n also, but I'm not sure.

Your vector code looks good. If you continued with a similar approach as you have there, you'd want it to be a while loop that runs while pos_b is not string::npos. Make sure to check that before using substr.

Sorry should have mentioned, the data is pulled in from a socket connection, i didnt choose to use the \r\n chars.

You can still try a stringstream, it may correctly handle \r\n. If not, keep working on your current implementation, it's not that far off.

Thanks alot, how do i use stringsteams getline?

Im trying this

Code:

	stringstream MyStream;
	
	group_list.push_back(MyStream.getline(glist, glist.length()));

But im not having much luck.

<< operator.

std::stringstream c;
c << somevariable;

That example doesn't help here, IdioticCreation, since we want to use an input stream and getline.

(TNT) Do you know how to use getline with cin or an ifstream? It is exactly the same, except you use the istringstream variable instead of cin or the ifstream variable. You'll want to do getline separately from push_back, since it fills the string with the data, it doesn't return it. Also, make sure you are using the proper version of getline. The MyStream.getline version is for C style strings, but you are using C++ strings.

http://www.boost.org/doc/html/string...html#id2541245
or
http://www.boost.org/libs/tokenizer/index.html