/// split a string into multiple sub strings, based on a separator string
/// for example, if separator="::",
///
/// s = "abc" -> "abc"
///
/// s = "abc::def xy::st:" -> "abc", "def xy" and "st:",
///
/// s = "::abc::" -> "abc"
///
/// s = "::" -> NO sub strings found
///
/// s = "" -> NO sub strings found
///
/// then append the sub-strings to the end of the vector v.
/// 
/// the idea comes from the findUrls() function of "Accelerated C++", chapt7,
/// findurls.cpp
///
void split(const string& s, const string& sep, vector<string>& v)
{
    typedef string::const_iterator iter;
    iter b = s.begin(), e = s.end(), i;
    iter sep_b = sep.begin(), sep_e = sep.end();

    // search through s
    while (b != e){
        i = search(b, e, sep_b, sep_e);

        // no more separator found
        if (i == e){
            // it's not an empty string
            if (b != e)
                v.push_back(string(b, e));
            break;
        }
        else if (i == b){
            // the separator is found and right at the beginning
            // in this case, we need to move on and search for the
            // next separator
            b = i + sep.length();
        }
        else{
            // found the separator
            v.push_back(string(b, i));
            b = i;
        }
    }
}

boost库很好，但并不总是可用的。手工做这些事情也是很好的脑力锻炼。这里我们只使用STL中的std::search()算法，参见上面的代码。

pystring是一个小型库，实现了Python的一系列字符串函数，包括split方法:

#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include "pystring.h"

std::vector<std::string> chunks;
pystring::split("this string", chunks);

// also can specify a separator
pystring::split("this-string", chunks, "-");

您可以使用流、迭代器和复制算法来相当直接地做到这一点。

#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <iostream>
#include <istream>
#include <ostream>
#include <iterator>
#include <sstream>
#include <algorithm>

int main()
{
  std::string str = "The quick brown fox";

  // construct a stream from the string
  std::stringstream strstr(str);

  // use stream iterators to copy the stream to the vector as whitespace separated strings
  std::istream_iterator<std::string> it(strstr);
  std::istream_iterator<std::string> end;
  std::vector<std::string> results(it, end);

  // send the vector to stdout.
  std::ostream_iterator<std::string> oit(std::cout);
  std::copy(results.begin(), results.end(), oit);
}

下面是我的Swiss®军刀字符串标记器，用于用空格分隔字符串，处理单引号和双引号包装的字符串，以及从结果中剥离这些字符。我使用RegexBuddy 4。x生成大部分代码片段，但我添加了用于剥离引号和其他一些东西的自定义处理。

#include <string>
#include <locale>
#include <regex>

std::vector<std::wstring> tokenize_string(std::wstring string_to_tokenize) {
    std::vector<std::wstring> tokens;

    std::wregex re(LR"(("[^"]*"|'[^']*'|[^"' ]+))", std::regex_constants::collate);

    std::wsregex_iterator next( string_to_tokenize.begin(),
                                string_to_tokenize.end(),
                                re,
                                std::regex_constants::match_not_null );

    std::wsregex_iterator end;
    const wchar_t single_quote = L'\'';
    const wchar_t double_quote = L'\"';
    while ( next != end ) {
        std::wsmatch match = *next;
        const std::wstring token = match.str( 0 );
        next++;

        if (token.length() > 2 && (token.front() == double_quote || token.front() == single_quote))
            tokens.emplace_back( std::wstring(token.begin()+1, token.begin()+token.length()-1) );
        else
            tokens.emplace_back(token);
    }
    return tokens;
}

这里有许多过于复杂的建议。试试这个简单的std::string解决方案:

using namespace std;

string someText = ...

string::size_type tokenOff = 0, sepOff = tokenOff;
while (sepOff != string::npos)
{
    sepOff = someText.find(' ', sepOff);
    string::size_type tokenLen = (sepOff == string::npos) ? sepOff : sepOff++ - tokenOff;
    string token = someText.substr(tokenOff, tokenLen);
    if (!token.empty())
        /* do something with token */;
    tokenOff = sepOff;
}

我认为这就是字符串流上的>>操作符的用途:

string word; sin >> word;