That did it. Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: Markus Schöpflin [mailto:markus.schoepflin@ginit-technology.com] Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 1:48 AM To: boost-users@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Boost-Users] Re: Is it possible to retrieve blank strings with boost::tokenizer? char_separator<char> sep("\t", "", keep_empty_tokens); should do the trick. HTH, Markus