Convert String containing several numbers into integers

I realize that this question may have been asked several times in the past, but I am going to continue regardless.

I have a program that is going to get a string of numbers from keyboard input. The numbers will always be in the form "66 33 9" Essentially, every number is separated with a space, and the user input will always contain a different amount of numbers.

I'm aware that using 'sscanf' would work if the amount of numbers in every user-entered string was constant, but this is not the case for me. Also, because I'm new to C++, I'd prefer dealing with 'string' variables rather than arrays of chars.

I assume you want to read an entire line, and parse that as input. So, first grab the line:

std::string input;
std::getline(std::cin, input);

Now put that in a stringstream:

std::stringstream stream(input);

and parse

while(1) {
   int n;
   stream >> n;
   if(!stream)
      break;
   std::cout << "Found integer: " << n << "\n";
}

Remember to include

#include <string>
#include <sstream>

The C++ String Toolkit Library (Strtk) has the following solution to your problem:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <deque>
#include <algorithm>
#include <iterator>

#include "strtk.hpp"

int main()
{
   std::string s = "1 23 456 7890";

   std::deque<int> int_list;
   strtk::parse(s," ",int_list);

   std::copy(int_list.begin(),
             int_list.end(),
             std::ostream_iterator<int>(std::cout,"\t"));

   return 0;
}

More examples can be found Here

#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <iterator>
#include <sstream>
#include <iostream>

int main() {
   std::string input;
   while ( std::getline( std::cin, input ) )
   {
      std::vector<int> inputs;
      std::istringstream in( input );
      std::copy( std::istream_iterator<int>( in ), std::istream_iterator<int>(),
         std::back_inserter( inputs ) );

      // Log process: 
      std::cout << "Read " << inputs.size() << " integers from string '" 
         << input << "'" << std::endl;
      std::cout << "\tvalues: ";
      std::copy( inputs.begin(), inputs.end(), 
         std::ostream_iterator<int>( std::cout, " " ) );
      std::cout << std::endl;
   }
 }