Input more strings in one line

Question

I got line which looks like: name1 - name2 (example: Josh - Marc) I need to take those 2 names as 2 different strings. I don't know how I could avoid this "-" while reading that line.. Any ideas? Thanks in advance,

Call me old fashioned but I try to write some code to do this. — Ed Heal, Jan 30 '16 at 12:55
Possible duplicate of [Split a string in C++?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/236129/split-a-string-in-c) — Pustovalov Dmitry, Jan 30 '16 at 12:55
Just split the string into tokens, then get rid of any '-' tokens ... [boost tokenizer](http://theboostcpplibraries.com/boost.tokenizer) is a simple solution. — RobClucas, Jan 30 '16 at 13:00

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 30 '16 at 12:57

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If the String pattern is known then you can parse it ex:

std::string s = "Josh - Marc";
std::string delimiter = "-";
std::string token = s.substr(0, s.find(delimiter));

answered Jan 30 '16 at 12:57

Raju

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Yeah I know this, but how to read it as input? If input is "Josh - Marc" (1 line)? I cannot just use cin, because there are spaces.. – Artegor Jan 30 '16 at 13:01
Maybe you should mention in the question that you don't know how to get the input in the way you want it, if that's your problem. – RobClucas Jan 30 '16 at 13:02
@Artegor you can read line with following `std::getline (std::cin,name);` . i advise you to use [Google](http://www.google.com) before [StackOverflow](http://stackoverflow.com/) – tchelidze Jan 30 '16 at 13:04

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 30 '16 at 13:04

Here is demo code.You can do it this way also,

#include <stdio.h>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
   char string[20], name1[20], name2[20];
   gets(string);
   int j = 0, k = 0;
   int i = 0;
   while(string[i] != '-')
   {
     name1[i] = string[i];
     i++;
   }
   while(string[i] != '\0')
     name2[j++] = string[++i];

   cout<<name1<<" "<<name2;
 }

Input more strings in one line

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