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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.