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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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<pre>// 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 = &quot;This is, a test&quot;;
tokenizer&lt;&gt; tok(s);
for(tokenizer&lt;&gt;::iterator beg=tok.begin(); beg!=tok.end();++beg){
cout &lt;&lt; *beg &lt;&lt; &quot;\n&quot;;
}
}</pre>
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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,&quot;putting quotes around fields,
allows commas&quot;,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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<pre>// 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 = &quot;Field 1,\&quot;putting quotes around fields, allows commas\&quot;,Field 3&quot;;
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; &quot;\n&quot;;
}
}</pre>
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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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<pre>// 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 = &quot;12252001&quot;;
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; &quot;\n&quot;;
}
}</pre>
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<p align="left">&nbsp;</p>
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<p>© Copyright John R. Bandela 2001. Permission to copy, use,
modify, sell and distribute this document is granted provided
this copyright notice appears in all copies. This document is
provided &quot;as is&quot; without express or implied warranty,
and with no claim as to its suitability for any purpose.</p>
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