c++ boost split string

Question

I\'m using the boost::split method to split a string as this:

I first make sure to include the correct header to have access to boost::split

Answer 1

My best guess at why you had problems with the ----- covering your first result is that you actually read the input line from a file. That line probably had a \r on the end so you ended up with something like this:

-----------test2-------test3

What happened is the machine actually printed this:

test-------test2-------test3\r-------

That means, because of the carriage return at the end of test3, that the dashes after test3 were printed over the top of the first word (and a few of the existing dashes between test and test2 but you wouldn't notice that because they were already dashes).