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| <h1 align="center">Introduction</h1> |
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| <p align="left">The boost Tokenizer package provides a flexible and easy to |
| use way to break of a string or other character sequence into a series of |
| tokens. Below is a simple example that will break up a phrase into |
| words.</p> |
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| <pre> |
| // simple_example_1.cpp |
| #include<iostream> |
| #include<boost/tokenizer.hpp> |
| #include<string> |
| |
| int main(){ |
| using namespace std; |
| using namespace boost; |
| string s = "This is, a test"; |
| tokenizer<> tok(s); |
| for(tokenizer<>::iterator beg=tok.begin(); beg!=tok.end();++beg){ |
| cout << *beg << "\n"; |
| } |
| } |
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| <p align="left">You can choose how the string gets broken up. You do this |
| by specifying the TokenizerFunction. If you do not specify anything, the |
| default TokenizerFunction is char_delimiters_separator<char> which |
| defaults to breaking up a string based on space and punctuation. Here is an |
| example of using another TokenizerFunction called escaped_list_separator. |
| This TokenizerFunction parses a superset of comma separated value (csv) |
| lines. The format looks like this</p> |
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| <p align="left">Field 1,"putting quotes around fields, allows commas",Field |
| 3</p> |
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| <p align="left">Below is an example that will break the previous line into |
| its 3 fields</p> |
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| <pre> |
| // simple_example_2.cpp |
| #include<iostream> |
| #include<boost/tokenizer.hpp> |
| #include<string> |
| |
| int main(){ |
| using namespace std; |
| using namespace boost; |
| string s = "Field 1,\"putting quotes around fields, allows commas\",Field 3"; |
| tokenizer<escaped_list_separator<char> > tok(s); |
| for(tokenizer<escaped_list_separator<char> >::iterator beg=tok.begin(); beg!=tok.end();++beg){ |
| cout << *beg << "\n"; |
| } |
| } |
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| <p align="left">Finally, for some TokenizerFunctions you have to pass in |
| something into the constructor in order to do anything interesting. An |
| example is offset_separator. This class breaks a string into tokens based |
| on offsets for example</p> |
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| <p align="left">12252001 when parsed using offsets of 2,2,4 becomes 12 25 |
| 2001. Below is an example to parse this.</p> |
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| <pre> |
| // simple_example_3.cpp |
| #include<iostream> |
| #include<boost/tokenizer.hpp> |
| #include<string> |
| |
| int main(){ |
| using namespace std; |
| using namespace boost; |
| string s = "12252001"; |
| int offsets[] = {2,2,4}; |
| offset_separator f(offsets, offsets+3); |
| tokenizer<offset_separator> tok(s,f); |
| for(tokenizer<offset_separator>::iterator beg=tok.begin(); beg!=tok.end();++beg){ |
| cout << *beg << "\n"; |
| } |
| } |
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| <p>Revised |
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| <p><i>Copyright © 2001 John R. Bandela</i></p> |
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| <p><i>Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See |
| accompanying file <a href="../../LICENSE_1_0.txt">LICENSE_1_0.txt</a> or |
| copy at <a href= |
| "http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt">http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>)</i></p> |
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