Best way to get ints from a string with whitespace?

Question

I know this is simple, I just can\'t recall the best way to do this. I have an input like \" 5 15 \" that defines the x and y of a 2D vector array. I simply ne

Answer 1

I personally prefer the C way, which is to use sscanf():

const char* str = " 5 15 ";
int col, row;
sscanf(str, "%d %d", &col, &row); // (should return 2, as two ints were read)