Boost:StringAlgo

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How to use

The following header must be included.

#include <boost/algorithm/string.hpp>

Example

• to_upper(std::string): Convert to uppercase
• to_lower(std::string): Convert to lowercase
• trim(std::string): Remove whitespace characters
• iends_with(std::string, ".exe"): Check whether the string ends with .exe
• find_first(std::string, "dolly"): Does the string contain dolly? (returns iterator or bool)
• replace_first(std::string, "A", "B"): Search from the front and replace A with B (once)
• replace_last(std::string, "A", "B"): Search from the back and replace A with B (once)
• erase_all(std::string, "empty"): Delete all occurrences of the string empty
• erase_head(std::string, 6): Delete the first 6 characters
• split(std::vector<std::string>>, std::string, is_any_of("--"), token_compress_on) ¹: Find every "--" in the string and push_back the pieces into a vector<string> container

See also

• Boost:Tokenizer

Favorite site

• Building string serialization with Boost string algorithm / spirit/karma
• Trimming

References