有点晚了，不过没关系。c++ 11在这里，我们有lambda和auto变量。所以我的版本，也处理全空白和空字符串，是:

#include <cctype>
#include <string>
#include <algorithm>

inline std::string trim(const std::string &s)
{
   auto wsfront=std::find_if_not(s.begin(),s.end(),[](int c){return std::isspace(c);});
   auto wsback=std::find_if_not(s.rbegin(),s.rend(),[](int c){return std::isspace(c);}).base();
   return (wsback<=wsfront ? std::string() : std::string(wsfront,wsback));
}

我们可以从wsfront创建一个反向迭代器，并在第二个find_if_not中使用它作为终止条件，但这只在全空白字符串的情况下有用，gcc 4.8至少不足以用auto推断反向迭代器(std::string::const_reverse_iterator)的类型。我不知道构造反向迭代器有多贵，这里是YMMV。修改后，代码如下所示:

inline std::string trim(const std::string &s)
{
   auto  wsfront=std::find_if_not(s.begin(),s.end(),[](int c){return std::isspace(c);});
   return std::string(wsfront,std::find_if_not(s.rbegin(),std::string::const_reverse_iterator(wsfront),[](int c){return std::isspace(c);}).base());
}

c++ 11中还加入了正则表达式模块，当然可以用它来修饰开头或结尾的空格。

也许是这样的:

std::string ltrim(const std::string& s)
{
    static const std::regex lws{"^[[:space:]]*", std::regex_constants::extended};
    return std::regex_replace(s, lws, "");
}

std::string rtrim(const std::string& s)
{
    static const std::regex tws{"[[:space:]]*$", std::regex_constants::extended};
    return std::regex_replace(s, tws, "");
}

std::string trim(const std::string& s)
{
    return ltrim(rtrim(s));
}

我喜欢tzaman的解决方案，唯一的问题是它不修剪只包含空格的字符串。

为了纠正这1个缺陷，在2个微调行之间添加str.clear()

std::stringstream trimmer;
trimmer << str;
str.clear();
trimmer >> str;

For what it's worth, here is a trim implementation with an eye towards performance. It's much quicker than many other trim routines I've seen around. Instead of using iterators and std::finds, it uses raw c strings and indices. It optimizes the following special cases: size 0 string (do nothing), string with no whitespace to trim (do nothing), string with only trailing whitespace to trim (just resize the string), string that's entirely whitespace (just clear the string). And finally, in the worst case (string with leading whitespace), it does its best to perform an efficient copy construction, performing only 1 copy and then moving that copy in place of the original string.

void TrimString(std::string & str)
{ 
    if(str.empty())
        return;

    const auto pStr = str.c_str();

    size_t front = 0;
    while(front < str.length() && std::isspace(int(pStr[front]))) {++front;}

    size_t back = str.length();
    while(back > front && std::isspace(int(pStr[back-1]))) {--back;}

    if(0 == front)
    {
        if(back < str.length())
        {
            str.resize(back - front);
        }
    }
    else if(back <= front)
    {
        str.clear();
    }
    else
    {
        str = std::move(std::string(str.begin()+front, str.begin()+back));
    }
}

还有一种选择-从两端删除一个或多个字符。

string strip(const string& s, const string& chars=" ") {
    size_t begin = 0;
    size_t end = s.size()-1;
    for(; begin < s.size(); begin++)
        if(chars.find_first_of(s[begin]) == string::npos)
            break;
    for(; end > begin; end--)
        if(chars.find_first_of(s[end]) == string::npos)
            break;
    return s.substr(begin, end-begin+1);
}

我已经阅读了大部分答案，但没有发现任何人使用istringstream

std::string text = "Let me split this into words";

std::istringstream iss(text);
std::vector<std::string> results((std::istream_iterator<std::string>(iss)),
                                 std::istream_iterator<std::string>());

结果是单词的向量，它可以处理有内部空白的字符串，希望这有帮助。