I have a program that's expected to take as input a few options to specify probabilities in the form (p1, p2, p3, ... ). So the command line usage would literally be:
./myprog -dist (0.20, 0.40, 0.40)
I want to parse lists like this in C++ and I am currently trying to do it with iterators for the std::string type and the split function provided by Boost.
// Assume stuff up here is OK
std::vector<string> dist_strs; // Will hold the stuff that is split by boost.
std::string tmp1(argv[k+1]); // Assign the parentheses enclosed list into this std::string.
// Do some error checking here to make sure tmp1 is valid.
boost::split(dist_strs, <what to put here?> , boost::is_any_of(", "));
Note above the <what to put here?>
part. Since I need to ignore the beginning and ending parentheses, I want to do something like
tmp1.substr( ++tmp1.begin(), --tmp1.end() )
but it doesn't look like substr
works this way, and I cannot find a function in the documentation that works to do this.
One idea I had was to do iterator arithmetic, if this is permitted, and use substr
to call
tmp1.substr( ++tmp1.begin(), (--tmp1.end()) - (++tmp1.begin()) )
but I wasn't sure if this is allowed, or if it is a reasonable way to do it. If this isn't a valid approach, what is a better one? ...Many thanks in advance.
std::string
's constructor should provide the functionality you need.
std::string(tmp1.begin() + 1, tmp1.end() - 1)