What is the best algorithm for arbitrary delimiter/escape character processing?

Question

I\'m a little surprised that there isn\'t some information on this on the web, and I keep finding that the problem is a little stickier than I thought.

Here\'s the r

Answer 1

void smartSplit(string const& text, char delim, char esc, vector& tokens)
{
    enum State { NORMAL, IN_ESC };
    State state = NORMAL;
    string frag;

    for (size_t i = 0; i