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I've this sample program of a step that I want to implement on my application. I want to push_back the int elements on the string separately, into a vector. How can I?

#include <iostream> #include <sstream> #include <vector> using namespace std; int main(){ string line = "1 2 3 4 5"; //includes spaces stringstream lineStream(line); vector<int> numbers; // how do I push_back the numbers (separately) here? // in this example I know the size of my string but in my application I won't } 

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This is a classic example of std::back_inserter.

copy(istream_iterator<int>(lineStream), istream_iterator<int>(), back_inserter(numbers)); 

You can create the vector right from the start on, if you wish

vector<int> numbers((istream_iterator<int>(lineStream)), istream_iterator<int>()); 

Remember to put parentheses around the first argument. The compiler thinks it's a function declaration otherwise. If you use the vector for just getting iterators for the numbers, you can use the istream iterators directly:

istream_iterator<int> begin(lineStream), end; while(begin != end) cout << *begin++ << " "; 
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This is a perfect example, imho, of whats wrong with C++. In virtually every other language, this would be a split on ' ', followed by something like .toInt() for each element. Instead, we have an immensely complicated collection of templatized algorithms being applied.
I hear what you're saying dicroce. OTOH, this more complicated approach is faster, since you avoid creating a temporary array or list of strings, and also more powerful -- much the same code could be used to copy any sort of "range of values" (represented by a pair of iterators) into a vector.
C++11: vector<int> numbers(istream_iterator<int>(lineStream), {});
@KerrekSB yours is the first non-theoretic example I have seen for passing an initializer list to a deduced template parameter. Nice
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int num; while (lineStream >> num) numbers.push_back(num); 

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string token; char del = " "; istringstream iss(line); while(getline(iss,token,del)) v1.push_back(stoi(token)); 

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