separate words with hyphen

[fahrishb]

Hi so I am trying to make a function that gets a string and returns two or more different words if they are separated by hyphens.
for example
input = some-thing
output = some thing (2 different words)

right now my function deletes the hyphens but returns them as one word.
any help is appreciated. thank you!

  string normalWord(string str)
{
	for (int i=0; i<str.length(); i++)
	{
		if(!((str[i]>='A' && str[i] <= 'Z')|| (str[i] >= 'a' && str[i] <= 'z'))) 
		{
			
			str.erase(i,1); 
			--i;
		}
	}
	return str;
}

[LB]

If you want to return separate strings, why is the return type only one string? Hint: you will want to use a vector of strings instead ;)

[cire]

Instead of erasing the hyphen, change it to a space?

[fahrishb]

@cire : i changed it to a space

str[i] = ' ';

but it returns 'something' as one word.

@L B : if i use a vector of strings, how would i access the letters after the hyphens?

[LB]

What do you mean? Each word would be an element in the vector, with no spaces or hyphens involved.