无意冒犯，但对于这样一个简单的问题，你把事情搞得太复杂了。使用Boost有很多理由。但对于这么简单的事情，就像用20号雪橇打苍蝇一样。

void
split( vector<string> & theStringVector,  /* Altered/returned value */
       const  string  & theString,
       const  string  & theDelimiter)
{
    UASSERT( theDelimiter.size(), >, 0); // My own ASSERT macro.

    size_t  start = 0, end = 0;

    while ( end != string::npos)
    {
        end = theString.find( theDelimiter, start);

        // If at end, use length=maxLength.  Else use length=end-start.
        theStringVector.push_back( theString.substr( start,
                       (end == string::npos) ? string::npos : end - start));

        // If at end, use start=maxSize.  Else use start=end+delimiter.
        start = (   ( end > (string::npos - theDelimiter.size()) )
                  ?  string::npos  :  end + theDelimiter.size());
    }
}

例如(以Doug为例)，

#define SHOW(I,X)   cout << "[" << (I) << "]\t " # X " = \"" << (X) << "\"" << endl

int
main()
{
    vector<string> v;

    split( v, "A:PEP:909:Inventory Item", ":" );

    for (unsigned int i = 0;  i < v.size();   i++)
        SHOW( i, v[i] );
}

是的，我们可以split()返回一个新的向量，而不是传入一个。包装和重载是很简单的。但根据我所做的事情，我经常发现重用已有的对象比总是创建新对象更好。(只要我不忘记清空中间的向量!)

参考:http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/string/string/。

(我最初是在写一个回应Doug的问题:基于分隔符的c++字符串修改和提取(关闭)。但由于马丁·约克用这里的指针结束了这个问题……我将泛化我的代码。)

这是一个非常简单的问题:

#include <vector>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

vector<string> split(const char *str, char c = ' ')
{
    vector<string> result;

    do
    {
        const char *begin = str;

        while(*str != c && *str)
            str++;

        result.push_back(string(begin, str));
    } while (0 != *str++);

    return result;
}

请看这个例子。它可能对你有帮助。

#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>

using namespace std;

int main ()
{
    string tmps;
    istringstream is ("the dellimiter is the space");
    while (is.good ()) {
        is >> tmps;
        cout << tmps << "\n";
    }
    return 0;
}

在我看来很奇怪的是，SO网站上有这么多注重速度的书呆子，却没有人给出一个使用编译时生成的分隔符查找表的版本(下面是示例实现)。使用查找表和迭代器应该在效率上击败std::regex，如果你不需要击败regex，就使用它，它是c++ 11的标准，超级灵活。

有些人已经建议使用正则表达式，但对于新手来说，这里有一个打包的示例，应该完全符合OP的期望:

std::vector<std::string> split(std::string::const_iterator it, std::string::const_iterator end, std::regex e = std::regex{"\\w+"}){
    std::smatch m{};
    std::vector<std::string> ret{};
    while (std::regex_search (it,end,m,e)) {
        ret.emplace_back(m.str());              
        std::advance(it, m.position() + m.length()); //next start position = match position + match length
    }
    return ret;
}
std::vector<std::string> split(const std::string &s, std::regex e = std::regex{"\\w+"}){  //comfort version calls flexible version
    return split(s.cbegin(), s.cend(), std::move(e));
}
int main ()
{
    std::string str {"Some people, excluding those present, have been compile time constants - since puberty."};
    auto v = split(str);
    for(const auto&s:v){
        std::cout << s << std::endl;
    }
    std::cout << "crazy version:" << std::endl;
    v = split(str, std::regex{"[^e]+"});  //using e as delim shows flexibility
    for(const auto&s:v){
        std::cout << s << std::endl;
    }
    return 0;
}

如果我们需要更快并接受所有字符必须为8位的约束，我们可以在编译时使用元编程创建一个查找表:

template<bool...> struct BoolSequence{};        //just here to hold bools
template<char...> struct CharSequence{};        //just here to hold chars
template<typename T, char C> struct Contains;   //generic
template<char First, char... Cs, char Match>    //not first specialization
struct Contains<CharSequence<First, Cs...>,Match> :
    Contains<CharSequence<Cs...>, Match>{};     //strip first and increase index
template<char First, char... Cs>                //is first specialization
struct Contains<CharSequence<First, Cs...>,First>: std::true_type {}; 
template<char Match>                            //not found specialization
struct Contains<CharSequence<>,Match>: std::false_type{};

template<int I, typename T, typename U> 
struct MakeSequence;                            //generic
template<int I, bool... Bs, typename U> 
struct MakeSequence<I,BoolSequence<Bs...>, U>:  //not last
    MakeSequence<I-1, BoolSequence<Contains<U,I-1>::value,Bs...>, U>{};
template<bool... Bs, typename U> 
struct MakeSequence<0,BoolSequence<Bs...>,U>{   //last  
    using Type = BoolSequence<Bs...>;
};
template<typename T> struct BoolASCIITable;
template<bool... Bs> struct BoolASCIITable<BoolSequence<Bs...>>{
    /* could be made constexpr but not yet supported by MSVC */
    static bool isDelim(const char c){
        static const bool table[256] = {Bs...};
        return table[static_cast<int>(c)];
    }   
};
using Delims = CharSequence<'.',',',' ',':','\n'>;  //list your custom delimiters here
using Table = BoolASCIITable<typename MakeSequence<256,BoolSequence<>,Delims>::Type>;

有了这些，创建getNextToken函数就很容易了:

template<typename T_It>
std::pair<T_It,T_It> getNextToken(T_It begin,T_It end){
    begin = std::find_if(begin,end,std::not1(Table{})); //find first non delim or end
    auto second = std::find_if(begin,end,Table{});      //find first delim or end
    return std::make_pair(begin,second);
}

使用它也很简单:

int main() {
    std::string s{"Some people, excluding those present, have been compile time constants - since puberty."};
    auto it = std::begin(s);
    auto end = std::end(s);
    while(it != std::end(s)){
        auto token = getNextToken(it,end);
        std::cout << std::string(token.first,token.second) << std::endl;
        it = token.second;
    }
    return 0;
}

这里有一个生动的例子:http://ideone.com/GKtkLQ

对于简单的事情，我只使用以下方法:

unsigned TokenizeString(const std::string& i_source,
                        const std::string& i_seperators,
                        bool i_discard_empty_tokens,
                        std::vector<std::string>& o_tokens)
{
    unsigned prev_pos = 0;
    unsigned pos = 0;
    unsigned number_of_tokens = 0;
    o_tokens.clear();
    pos = i_source.find_first_of(i_seperators, pos);
    while (pos != std::string::npos)
    {
        std::string token = i_source.substr(prev_pos, pos - prev_pos);
        if (!i_discard_empty_tokens || token != "")
        {
            o_tokens.push_back(i_source.substr(prev_pos, pos - prev_pos));
            number_of_tokens++;
        }

        pos++;
        prev_pos = pos;
        pos = i_source.find_first_of(i_seperators, pos);
    }

    if (prev_pos < i_source.length())
    {
        o_tokens.push_back(i_source.substr(prev_pos));
        number_of_tokens++;
    }

    return number_of_tokens;
}

懦弱的免责声明:我编写实时数据处理软件，其中数据通过二进制文件、套接字或一些API调用(I/O卡、摄像头)传入。除了在启动时读取外部配置文件以外，我从未将这个函数用于更复杂或时间要求更严格的事情。

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, "-");