I'd like to parse an ODBC connect string (or other similarly constructed strings) using program_options. So, I have something like: Data Source=myServerAddress;Initial Catalog=myDataBase;Integrated Security=SSPI; now, I could implement the function that converts this to something I can use, like --Data_Source myServerAddress --Initial_Catalog myDataBase --Integrated_Security SSPI but I was wondering since there's already a split_winmain function, is there a function that already does this, before I roll my own?