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, "-");

c++标准库算法普遍基于迭代器，而不是具体的容器。不幸的是，这使得在c++标准库中很难提供类似java的split函数，尽管没有人认为这很方便。但是它的返回类型是什么呢?std::向量< std:: basic_string <…> >吗?也许吧，但这样我们就被迫执行(可能是冗余的和昂贵的)分配。

相反，c++提供了大量基于任意复杂的分隔符分割字符串的方法，但它们都没有像其他语言中那样封装得很好。各种各样的方法填满了整个博客文章。

在最简单的情况下，你可以使用std::string::find进行迭代，直到你击中std::string::npos，然后使用std::string::substr提取内容。

一个更流畅的(和惯用的，但基本的)版本在空格上拆分将使用std::istringstream:

auto iss = std::istringstream{"The quick brown fox"};
auto str = std::string{};

while (iss >> str) {
    process(str);
}

使用std::istream_iterators，还可以使用vector的迭代器范围构造函数将string流的内容复制到vector中。

多个库(如Boost.Tokenizer)提供特定的标记器。

更高级的分裂需要正则表达式。c++特别为此提供了std::regex_token_iterator:

auto const str = "The quick brown fox"s;
auto const re = std::regex{R"(\s+)"};
auto const vec = std::vector<std::string>(
    std::sregex_token_iterator{begin(str), end(str), re, -1},
    std::sregex_token_iterator{}
);

我以前只用标准库做了一个lexer/tokenizer。代码如下:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <sstream>

using namespace std;

string seps(string& s) {
    if (!s.size()) return "";
    stringstream ss;
    ss << s[0];
    for (int i = 1; i < s.size(); i++) {
        ss << '|' << s[i];
    }
    return ss.str();
}

void Tokenize(string& str, vector<string>& tokens, const string& delimiters = " ")
{
    seps(str);

    // Skip delimiters at beginning.
    string::size_type lastPos = str.find_first_not_of(delimiters, 0);
    // Find first "non-delimiter".
    string::size_type pos = str.find_first_of(delimiters, lastPos);

    while (string::npos != pos || string::npos != lastPos)
    {
        // Found a token, add it to the vector.
        tokens.push_back(str.substr(lastPos, pos - lastPos));
        // Skip delimiters.  Note the "not_of"
        lastPos = str.find_first_not_of(delimiters, pos);
        // Find next "non-delimiter"
        pos = str.find_first_of(delimiters, lastPos);
    }
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    vector<string> t;
    string s = "Tokens for everyone!";

    Tokenize(s, t, "|");

    for (auto c : t)
        cout << c << endl;

    system("pause");

    return 0;
}

你可以利用boost::make_find_iterator。类似于这个:

template<typename CH>
inline vector< basic_string<CH> > tokenize(
    const basic_string<CH> &Input,
    const basic_string<CH> &Delimiter,
    bool remove_empty_token
    ) {

    typedef typename basic_string<CH>::const_iterator string_iterator_t;
    typedef boost::find_iterator< string_iterator_t > string_find_iterator_t;

    vector< basic_string<CH> > Result;
    string_iterator_t it = Input.begin();
    string_iterator_t it_end = Input.end();
    for(string_find_iterator_t i = boost::make_find_iterator(Input, boost::first_finder(Delimiter, boost::is_equal()));
        i != string_find_iterator_t();
        ++i) {
        if(remove_empty_token){
            if(it != i->begin())
                Result.push_back(basic_string<CH>(it,i->begin()));
        }
        else
            Result.push_back(basic_string<CH>(it,i->begin()));
        it = i->end();
    }
    if(it != it_end)
        Result.push_back(basic_string<CH>(it,it_end));

    return Result;
}

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

使用regex_token_iterators的解决方案:

#include <iostream>
#include <regex>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

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

    regex reg("\\s+");

    sregex_token_iterator iter(str.begin(), str.end(), reg, -1);
    sregex_token_iterator end;

    vector<string> vec(iter, end);

    for (auto a : vec)
    {
        cout << a << endl;
    }
}