Parsing line by istringstream in c++

Sometime it is needed to parse a input line according to requirement. For example, I may need to separate the words by whitespaces, comma, hyphen etc.

One example is given below to parse the input line by comma:

  

string input = "abc d,ef,ghi";
istringstream ss(input);
string token;

while(getline(ss, token, ',')) {
    cout << token << '\n';
}

Output will be:

  

abc d
ef
ghi

reference from stackoverflow