Moved string splitting functions; added string character removal function

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/utilities/utilities.hpp b/src/utilities/utilities.hpp
index a4f4fab0..08b165b9 100644
--- a/src/utilities/utilities.hpp
+++ b/src/utilities/utilities.hpp
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 #include <functional>
 #include <complex>
 #include <random>
+#include <algorithm>
 
 #ifdef OPENCL_API
   #include "clpp11.hpp"
@@ -258,6 +259,30 @@ std::string ToString(T value);
 
 // =================================================================================================
 
+// String splitting by a delimiter
+template<typename Out>
+void split(const std::string &s, char delimiter, Out result) {
+  std::stringstream ss(s);
+  std::string item;
+  while (std::getline(ss, item, delimiter)) {
+    *(result++) = item;
+  }
+}
+
+// See above
+inline std::vector<std::string> split(const std::string &s, char delimiter) {
+  std::vector<std::string> elements;
+  split(s, delimiter, std::back_inserter(elements));
+  return elements;
+}
+
+// String character removal
+inline void remove_character(std::string &str, char to_be_removed) {
+  str.erase(std::remove(str.begin(), str.end(), to_be_removed), str.end());
+}
+
+// =================================================================================================
+
 // Parses command-line and environmental-variable arguments into a std::vector of strings
 std::vector<std::string> RetrieveCommandLineArguments(int argc, char *argv[]);