1: //
 2: //  Third iteration: goodbye, dynamic allocation;
 3: //  hello,  strings.
 4: //
 5: 
 6: template<typename Container>
 7: Container make_s(const char *intext,
 8:     bool stripLeadingSpaces = true)
 9: {
10:     using std::string;
11:     string incopy(intext);    // now a std::string; no len needed
12:     Container c;
13:     string::iterator nextComma; // string iterators, not char *s
14: 
15:     string::iterator curPos = 
16:         incopy.begin();
17:     while (true)
18:     {
19:         nextComma = std::find(curPos, incopy.end(), ',');
20: 
21:         if (stripLeadingSpaces)
22:             while (curPos != nextcomma && isspace(*curPos))
23:                 ++curPos;           
24: 
25:         c.push_back(string(curPos, nextComma));
26: 
27:         if (nextComma == incopy.end())
28:             break;
29: 
30:         curPos = ++nextComma;
31:     }
32:                                         // nothing to delete
33:     return c;
34: }