How to split a line of text by tabs in C++?

Question

I am a C++ beginner, and recently my professor assigned a C++ homework that in my opinion, is hard to solve using C++. Below is the problem:

Problem Statement
Given a file, whose content is a table in which cells are separated by a tab. For instance:

Full Name    Age    Gender
Cliff Chiang    9    B
Olivia Yang    8    G

For each line, split the line by a tab (For the above, the result is ["Cliff Chiang", 9, 8] and ["Olivia Yang", 8, 6]).

Associated questions

Read file line by line using ifstream in C++

How can I read and parse CSV files in C++?

The first question doesn't really answer my question since my problem is to split a string by tabs, not a newline. Plus, there might be spaces in my table, which is not a question the problem above fully solved.

The second question converts in CSV format, not what mine is.

My question

Is there any appreciated solution to this problem using C++?
If not, is there a simple function that could do that? Thanks for your help.

The linked "duplicate" does not answer this question. @user4581301 — Patrick Parker, Sep 23 '20 at 05:24
f.y.i. here is a better answer https://stackoverflow.com/q/7621727/7098259 — Patrick Parker, Sep 23 '20 at 05:42
Replaced duplicate. General gist: `std::getline` to get line. Feed line into `std::stringstream`. Use `std::getline` on stream to tab-delimited tokens. — user4581301, Sep 23 '20 at 05:56

How to split a line of text by tabs in C++?

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