uhd: made split string utility function

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/host/include/uhd/utils/algorithm.hpp b/host/include/uhd/utils/algorithm.hpp
index 1b5eacfa9..53c571e4e 100644
--- a/host/include/uhd/utils/algorithm.hpp
+++ b/host/include/uhd/utils/algorithm.hpp
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@
 #include <boost/range/begin.hpp>
 #include <boost/range/end.hpp>
 #include <boost/range/size.hpp>
+#include <boost/algorithm/string.hpp>
+#include <vector>
+#include <string>
 
 /*! \file algorithm.hpp
  * Useful templated functions and classes that I like to pretend are part of stl.
@@ -30,6 +33,24 @@
 namespace std{
 
     /*!
+     * Split a string at the separation characters.
+     * \param string the string to split
+     * \param sep the separator characters
+     * \return a range of strings
+     */
+    inline std::vector<std::string> split_string(
+        const std::string &string, const std::string &sep = "\t "
+    ){
+        std::vector<std::string> strings;
+        if (not string.empty()) boost::split(
+            // do not split an empty string:
+            // let me tell you about the time when boost::split segfaulted...
+            strings, string, boost::is_any_of(sep)
+        );
+        return strings;
+    }
+
+    /*!
      * A wrapper around std::copy that takes ranges instead of iterators.
      *
      * Copy the elements of the source range into the destination range.