Thanks for your quick response, Pavol, this did the trick and cleared up my misunderstanding. Might I suggest an overloaded version of split that takes a string/character string as a delimiter. Althought the implementation details are different, I still think it fits well into the intent of the split algorithm and may clear up issue for others have the same problem as I did. Thanks again for your help! David Brownell "Pavol Droba" wrote in message news:<20050128071103.GC31065@lenin.felcer.sk>...

Hi,

It is possible to achieve what you want quite easily. However, split algorithm is not the right tool for this. Split is a high level wrapper over the split_iterator and it is quite specialized.

So this is the code, that should work for you:

#include #include

static char const STRING[] = "this\r\nis\r\n\r\na test!";

typedef boost::split_iterator char_split_iterator;

for(char_split_iterator It=char_split_iterator(STRING, boost::first_finder("\r\n"); It!=char_split_iterator(); ++It) { cout << *It << endl; }