Exploding a string?

[Beowolf]

I have a program that takes in a line of input, separates it into individual words, and then runs each of those words through a method that replaces illegal characters (like ! and @) with spaces, and then inserts each word into a BST. For example, if a line of input was:

one TWO three@four

What would get broken up would be:

one
TWO
three@four

And then when the words went through my modify method, it would look like:

one
two
three four

Notice however that "three four" is considered one word. What I need to do is break apart "three four" after the illegal characters are removed so that my word structure would now look like:

one
two
three
four

i.e. four nodes would be inserted, not three. Is there any way to do this?

[matsp]

Why don't you run the "replace illegal chars" before you split the words out?

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Mats

[mikeman118]

A way you could replace characters is this (str being the string):

replace (str.begin(), str.end(), '@', ' ');