Is there an equivalent in C++ of PHP's explode() function? [duplicate]

Here's a simple example implementation:

#include <string>#include <vector>#include <sstream>#include <utility>std::vector<std::string> explode(std::string const & s, char delim){    std::vector<std::string> result;    std::istringstream iss(s);    for (std::string token; std::getline(iss, token, delim); )    {        result.push_back(std::move(token));    }    return result;}

Usage:

auto v = explode("hello world foo bar", ' ');

Note: @Jerry's idea of writing to an output iterator is more idiomatic for C++. In fact, you can provide both; an output-iterator template and a wrapper that produces a vector, for maximum flexibility.

Note 2: If you want to skip empty tokens, add if (!token.empty()).

The standard library doesn't include a direct equivalent, but it's a fairly easy one to write. Being C++, you don't normally want to write specifically to an array though -- rather, you'd typically want to write the output to an iterator, so it can go to an array, vector, stream, etc. That would give something on this general order:

template <class OutIt>void explode(std::string const &input, char sep, OutIt output) {     std::istringstream buffer(input);    std::string temp;    while (std::getline(buffer, temp, sep))        *output++ = temp;}