Thread: Number of Tokens

Since your tokens are seperated by white space, you can use formatted input to count the tokens:

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <sstream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
    string s = "\"I don't got time for pain. The only pain "
               "I got time for is the pain I put on fools "
               "who don't know what time it is!\", TTT";

    istringstream iss(s);

    string token;
    size_t num_tokens = 0;

    for (; iss.good(); num_tokens++)
        iss >> token;

    cout << num_tokens << endl;

    return 0;
}//main

In this example, I get strings from an input stream until the stream is no longer good (there's no more strings in the stream). The same concept can be applied to other streams.

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