Simple way to split a sequence of null-separated strings in C++

Question

I have a series of strings stored in a single array, separated by nulls (for example ['f', 'o', 'o', '\0', 'b', 'a', 'r', '\0'...]), and I need to split this into a std::vector<std::string> or similar.

I could just write a 10-line loop to do this using std::find or strlen (in fact I just did), but I'm wondering if there is a simpler/more elegant way to do it, for example some STL algorithm I've overlooked, which can be coaxed into doing this.

It is a fairly simple task, and it wouldn't surprise me if there's some clever STL trickery that can be applied to make it even simpler.

Any takers?

Answer 1

My two cents :

const char* p = str;
std::vector<std::string> vector;

do {
  vector.push_back(std::string(p));
  p += vector.back().size() + 1;
} while ( // whatever condition applies );

Answer 2

Boost solution:

#include <boost/algorithm/string.hpp>
std::vector<std::string> strs;
//input_array must be a Range containing the input.
boost::split(
    strs,
    input_array,
    boost::is_any_of(boost::as_array("\0")));