function dividing chunks of characters, strings

[cyprus106]

I need to find a function that divides a string into parts based on what the user defines as the part to divide it by. Confusing, wait, example: 'cyprus.was.here' the user wants to divide this string into parts based on the '.', so there would be 3 parts: 'cyprus', 'was', and 'here'. or if i wanted to break it up by 'y', it would be: 'c' and 'prus.was.here'.
somewhat like fnsplit, but with a designated string, and a designated segimant divider, as opposed to a file name and '\\'. I'm not exactly sure where to start here, and I don't have ANY time to even attempt it, so I was desperately hoping someone out here might know. Cyprus

 

[2ffat]

Look carefully at the getline function. This is part of the STL and is in the string header (this is the C++ string and not BCB String). One of the functions of getline is to copy characters from one string into another string until a delimiter is found or the end of the input string is found. The following code is from memory so it may not compile as it.

#include <string.h>
#include <iostream.h>

using std namespace;

int main()
{
    string TheString = &quot;Jim.was.here&quot;;
    string Name, Verb, Ad;

    getline(TheString,Name,'.'); // To first period
    getline(TheString,Verb,'.'); // From first period to second
    getline(TheString,Ad,'/n'); // From second period to end of line

    cout << Name << &quot; &quot; << Verb << &quot; &quot; << Ad << endl;
    return 0;
}

You may have to play with this as I'm doing this from memory. James P. Cottingham

I am the Unknown lead by the Unknowing.
I have done so much with so little
for so long that I am now qualified
to do anything with nothing.

 

[cyprus106]

hey! thats it! i suspected that there was a function like that, but i didnt know it and didn't look. thanks! Cyprus

 

[OnTheFly]

Check out strtok function in string.h