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searching a string, stripping out substrings.

I have a string, for ex
welcome.to.my.nightmare.alice.cooper
I want to put this string into 6 different variables so break on all .'s
with the following I'm only available to break on the first portion of the string (welcome)
for (i=0;i<counter;i++){
            cout << strings[i] << endl;
            j= strings[i].find(period);
            output = strings[i].substr(0,j);
            cout << output << endl;
how do I break on the other periods, there will be 30 other strings so each index of the period will change.

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itsmeandnobodyelse

Or that:

for (i=0;i<counter;i++)
{
cout << strings[i] << endl;
string::size_t pos = 0;
string::size_t lpos = 0;

while ((pos = strings[i].find(period, lpos)) != string::npos)
{
output = strings[i].substr(lpos,pos-lpos);
cout << output << endl;
lpos = pos + 1;
}
// print the last substring as well
output = strings[i].substr(lpos);
cout << output << endl;
}

Regards, Alex

Indrawati

Hmm, they're basically the exact same thing.

itsmeandnobodyelse

>>> Hmm, they're basically the exact same thing

No, there are differences: your's compiles, mine has a wrong type string::size_t, should be string::size_type ;-)

Regards, Alex