How to split the strings in vc++?

Question

I have a string \"stack+ovrflow*newyork;\" i have to split this stack,overflow,newyork

any idea??

Answer 1

There is another way to split a string using c/c++ :

First define a function to split a string:

//pointers of the substrings, assume the number of fields will not be over 5
char *fields[5];   
//str: the string to splitted
//splitter: the split charactor
//return the real number of fields or 0 if any error exits
int split(char* str, char *splitter)
{
    if(NULL == str) 
    {
        return 0;
    }

    int cnt;
    fields[0] = str;
    for(cnt = 1; (fields[cnt] = strstr(fields[cnt - 1], splitter)) != NULL && 
            cnt < 5; cnt++)
    {
        *fields[cnt] = '\0';
        ++fields[cnt];
    }
    return cnt;
}

then you can use this function to split string as following:

char* str = "stack+ovrflow*newyork;"
split(str, "+");
printf("%s\n", fields[0]); //print "stack"
split(fields[1], "*");
printf("%s\n", fields[0]); //print "ovrflow"
split(fields[1], ";");
printf("%s\n", fields[0]); //print "newyork"

this way will be more efficient and reusable