1: //
  2: //  Third iteration: goodbye, dynamic allocation;
  3: //  hello,  strings.
  4: //
  5: 
  6: template<typename Container>
  7: Container make_s(const char *intext,
  8:     bool stripLeadingSpaces = true)
  9: {
 10:     using std::string;
 11:     string incopy(intext);    // now a std::string; no len needed
 12:     Container c;
 13:     string::iterator nextComma; // string iterators, not char *s
 14: 
 15:     string::iterator curPos = 
 16:         incopy.begin();
 17:     while (true)
 18:     {
 19:         nextComma = std::find(curPos, incopy.end(), ',');
 20: 
 21:         if (stripLeadingSpaces)
 22:             while (curPos != nextcomma && isspace(*curPos))
 23:                 ++curPos;           
 24: 
 25:         c.push_back(string(curPos, nextComma));
 26: 
 27:         if (nextComma == incopy.end())
 28:             break;
 29: 
 30:         curPos = ++nextComma;
 31:     }
 32:                                         // nothing to delete
 33:     return c;
 34: }