break down string and store values in iteger array

[Vashtanerada]

hi it may sound very easy I need a hint first of all I know how to break a string into integers but what I got is string like this "2001 , 2002 , 2003 ,2005,2006-2015" a I need this string break into separate years and if there is a dash `-` between years I need to store all years from for example 2006 to 2015.
Its one fuction from a bigger program and I dont know how to do this If u can point me in right direction

[Chervil]

You might try something like this as a first stage:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <sstream>

    using namespace std;

int main()
{
    string data = "2001 , 2002 , 2003 ,2005,2006-2015";
    istringstream ss(data);
    string word;
    const char comma = ',';

    while (getline(ss, word, comma))
    {
        cout << word << endl;
    }
}

Output:

2001
 2002
 2003
2005
2006-2015

You might want to first tidy up the string to remove any spaces - I took this data directly from the original question.

Also the <cstring> library has the strtok function with similar but different parsing capability, for example you could split the string at either a comma or a hyphen.

When you have the integer neatly in a string, the atoi() function can turn it into a numeric value if required.