Splitting a string by a character

Question

I know this is a quite easy problem but I just want to solve it for myself once and for all

I would simply like to split a string into an array using a character as

Answer 1

Another way (C++11/boost) for people who like RegEx. Personally I'm a big fan of RegEx for this kind of data. IMO it's far more powerful than simply splitting strings using a delimiter since you can choose to be be a lot smarter about what constitutes "valid" data if you wish.

#include 
#include     // copy
#include      // back_inserter
#include         // regex, sregex_token_iterator
#include 

int main()
{
    std::string str = "08/04/2012";
    std::vector tokens;
    std::regex re("\\d+");

    //start/end points of tokens in str
    std::sregex_token_iterator
        begin(str.begin(), str.end(), re),
        end;

    std::copy(begin, end, std::back_inserter(tokens));
}