How to remove accents and tilde in a C++ std::string

Question

I have a problem with a string in C++ which has several words in Spanish. This means that I have a lot of words with accents and tildes. I want to replace them for their not

Answer 1

You might want to check out the boost (http://www.boost.org/) library.

It has a regexp library, which you could use. In addition it has a specific library that has some functions for string manipulation (link) including replace.