I never said I didn't know where to get one, or to actually write it. In fact, you can do it way simply with getline(). It just always pissed me off when I hack a little something and there is no split.. I then need to either include boost which is huuuuge compared to my 200 lines file.. code it myself, get a snippet from internet.

The point is: in C++, there are so much things.. It's like a fuckload of thousand of features to satisfy everyone. How the fuck can there be no split? Ruby, split, python, split, java, split, php, split, C# split, C++ -your-20-lines-function-which-only-support-splitting-on-a-char-but-not-on-a-string.