Using strtok with a std::string

If boost is available on your system (I think it's standard on most Linux distros these days), it has a Tokenizer class you can use.

If not, then a quick Google turns up a hand-rolled tokenizer for std::string that you can probably just copy and paste. It's very short.

And, if you don't like either of those, then here's a split() function I wrote to make my life easier. It'll break a string into pieces using any of the chars in "delim" as separators. Pieces are appended to the "parts" vector:

void split(const string& str, const string& delim, vector<string>& parts) {
  size_t start, end = 0;
  while (end < str.size()) {
    start = end;
    while (start < str.size() && (delim.find(str[start]) != string::npos)) {
      start++;  // skip initial whitespace
    }
    end = start;
    while (end < str.size() && (delim.find(str[end]) == string::npos)) {
      end++; // skip to end of word
    }
    if (end-start != 0) {  // just ignore zero-length strings.
      parts.push_back(string(str, start, end-start));
    }
  }
}