Ignore spaces in vector C++ - c++

Question

I'm trying to split a string in individual words using vector in C++. So I would like to know how to ignore spaces in vector, if user put more than one space between words in string.
How would I do that?
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <algorithm>
using namespace std;
int main(){
cout<<"Sentence: ";
string sentence;
getline(cin,sentence);
vector<string> my;
int start=0;
unsigned int end=sentence.size();
unsigned int temp=0;
while(temp<end){
int te=sentence.find(" ",start);
temp=te;
my.push_back(sentence.substr(start, temp-start));
start=temp+1;
}
unsigned int i;
for(i=0 ; i<my.size() ; i++){
cout<<my[i]<<endl;
}
return 0;
}

Answer 1

Four things:
When reading input from a stream into astring using the overloaded >> operator, then it automatically separates on white-space. I.e. it reads "words".
There exists an input stream that uses a string as the input, std::istringstream.
You can use iterators with streams, like e.g. std::istream_iterator.
std::vector have a constructor taking a pair of iterators.
That means your code could simply be
std::string line;
std::getline(std::cin, line);
std::istringstream istr(line);
std::vector<std::string> words(std::istream_iterator<std::string>(istr),
std::istream_iterator<std::string>());
After this, the vector words will contain all the "words" from the input line.
You can easily print the "words" using std::ostream_iterator and std::copy:
std::copy(begin(words), end(words),
std::ostream_iterator<std::string>(std::cout, "\n"));

Answer 2

The easiest way is to use a std::istringstream like follows:
std::string sentence;
std::getline(std::cin,sentence);
std::istringstream iss(sentence);
std::vector<std::string> my;
std::string word;
while(iss >> word) {
my.push_back(word);
}
Any whitespaces will be ignored and skipped automatically.

Answer 3

You can create the vector directly using the std::istream_iterator which skips white spaces:
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <sstream>
#include <vector>
#include <iterator>
int main() {
std::string str = "Hello World Lorem Ipsum The Quick Brown Fox";
std::istringstream iss(str);
std::vector<std::string> vec {std::istream_iterator<std::string>(iss),
std::istream_iterator<std::string>() };
for (const auto& el : vec) {
std::cout << el << '\n';
}
}

Answer 4

Here is a function which divides given sentence into words.
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <sstream>
#include <utility>
std::vector<std::string> divideSentence(const std::string& sentence) {
std::stringstream stream(sentence);
std::vector<std::string> words;
std::string word;
while(stream >> word) {
words.push_back(std::move(word));
}
return words;
}

Answer 5

Reducing double, triple etc. spaces in string is a problem you'll encounter again and again. I've always used the following very simple algorithm:
Pseudocode:
while " " in string:
string.replace(" ", " ")
After the while loop, you know your string only has single spaces since multiple consecutive spaces were compressed to singles.
Most languages allow you to search for a substring in a string and most languages have the ability to run string.replace() so it's a useful trick.