Taking Each Individual Word From a String in C++ - c++

Question

I am writing a method in C++ which will take a string of 2 or more words and output each individual word of the string separated by a second or so, using the sleep() method. I am trying to do this using a for loop and substrings. I am unsure also of the regexs which should be used, and how they should be used, to achieve the desired output.
I have reviewed this and this and find my question differs since I am trying to do this in a loop, and not store the individual substrings.
Input:
"This is an example"
Desired output:
"This " (pause) "is " (pause) "an " (pause) "example."

Answer 1

Use std::stringstream, no regular expressions required:
#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>
using namespace std;
int main() {
stringstream ss("This is a test");
string s;
while (ss >> s) {
cout << s << endl;
}
return 0;
}
Also, see How do I tokenize a string in C++?

Answer 2

Here are a pair of implementations that don't involve creating any extraneous buffers.
#include <boost/range/adaptor/filtered.hpp>
#include <boost/range/algorithm/copy.hpp> //for boost::copy
#include <chrono>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <experimental/string_view> //in clang or gcc; or use boost::string_ref in boost 1.53 or later; or use boost::iterator_range<char*> in earlier version of boost
#include <thread>
void method_one(std::experimental::string_view sv)
{
for(auto b = sv.begin(), e = sv.end(), space = std::find(b, e, ' ')
; b < e
; b = space + 1, space = std::find(space + 1, e, ' '))
{
std::copy(b, space, std::ostreambuf_iterator<char>(std::cout));
std::cout << " (pause) "; //note that this will spit out an extra pause the last time through
std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::seconds(1));
}
}
void method_two(std::experimental::string_view sv)
{
boost::copy(
sv | boost::adaptors::filtered([](const char c) -> bool
{
if(c == ' ')
{
std::cout << " (pause) "; //note that this spits out exactly one pause per space character
std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::seconds(1));
return false;
}
return true;
})
, std::ostreambuf_iterator<char>(std::cout)
);
}
int main() {
const std::string s{"This is a string"};
method_one(s);
std::cout << std::endl;
method_two(s);
std::cout << std::endl;
return 0;
}
Live on coliru, if you're into that.

Answer 3

you can implement your own method:
//StrParse.h
#pragma once
#include <iostream>
static counter = 0;
char* strPar(char* pTxt, char c)
{
int lenAll = strlen(pTxt);
bool strBeg = false;
int nWords = 0;
for(int i(0); i < lenAll; i++)
{
while(pTxt[i] != c)
{
strBeg = true;
i++;
}
if(strBeg)
{
nWords++;
strBeg = false;
}
}
int* pLens = new int[nWords];
int j = 0;
int len = 0;
for(i = 0; i < lenAll; i++)
{
while(pTxt[i] != c)
{
strBeg = true;
i++;
len++;
}
if(strBeg)
{
pLens[j] = len;
j++;
strBeg = false;
len = 0;
}
}
char** pStr = new char*[nWords + 1];
for(i = 0; i < nWords; i++)
pStr[i] = new char[pLens[i] + 1];
int k = 0, l = 0;
for(i = 0; i < lenAll; i++)
{
while(pTxt[i] != c)
{
strBeg = true;
pStr[k][l] = pTxt[i];
l++;
i++;
}
if(strBeg)
{
pStr[k][l] = '\0';
k++;
l = 0;
strBeg = false;
}
}
counter++;
if(counter <= nWords)
return pStr[counter - 1];
else
return NULL;
}
//main.cpp
#include "StrParse.h"
void main()
{
char* pTxt = " -CPlusPlus -programming -is -a - superb thing ";
char* pStr1 = NULL;
int i = 1;
char sep;
std::cout << "Separator: ";
sep = std::cin.get();
std::cin.sync();
while(pStr1 = strPar(pTxt, sep))
{
std::cout << "String " << i << ": " << pStr1 << std::endl;
delete pStr1;
i++;
}
std::cout << std::endl;
}