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<h1 align="center">Introduction</h1>
<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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// simple_example_1.cpp
#include&lt;iostream&gt;
#include&lt;boost/tokenizer.hpp&gt;
#include&lt;string&gt;
int main(){
using namespace std;
using namespace boost;
string s = "This is, a test";
tokenizer&lt;&gt; tok(s);
for(tokenizer&lt;&gt;::iterator beg=tok.begin(); beg!=tok.end();++beg){
cout &lt;&lt; *beg &lt;&lt; "\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&lt;char&gt; 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>
<p align="left">Field 1,"putting quotes around fields, allows commas",Field
3</p>
<p align="left">Below is an example that will break the previous line into
its 3 fields</p>
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// simple_example_2.cpp
#include&lt;iostream&gt;
#include&lt;boost/tokenizer.hpp&gt;
#include&lt;string&gt;
int main(){
using namespace std;
using namespace boost;
string s = "Field 1,\"putting quotes around fields, allows commas\",Field 3";
tokenizer&lt;escaped_list_separator&lt;char&gt; &gt; tok(s);
for(tokenizer&lt;escaped_list_separator&lt;char&gt; &gt;::iterator beg=tok.begin(); beg!=tok.end();++beg){
cout &lt;&lt; *beg &lt;&lt; "\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>
<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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// simple_example_3.cpp
#include&lt;iostream&gt;
#include&lt;boost/tokenizer.hpp&gt;
#include&lt;string&gt;
int main(){
using namespace std;
using namespace boost;
string s = "12252001";
int offsets[] = {2,2,4};
offset_separator f(offsets, offsets+3);
tokenizer&lt;offset_separator&gt; tok(s,f);
for(tokenizer&lt;offset_separator&gt;::iterator beg=tok.begin(); beg!=tok.end();++beg){
cout &lt;&lt; *beg &lt;&lt; "\n";
}
}
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<p>Revised
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<p><i>Copyright &copy; 2001 John R. Bandela</i></p>
<p><i>Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See
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