Not seeing the docs but when in doubt refer to the code. http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0/boost/algorithm/string/split.hpp -Gary- On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Edward Diener wrote:

On 4/14/2014 9:18 AM, Sebastian Karlsson wrote:

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First of all I think it's a bit unintuitive that boost::algorithm::split swaps with target, I would've assumed it appended. The fact that it in effect clears target makes it cumbersome to incrementally split into a destination, as you need a new temporary for every call to split, and then explicitly transfer everything over to your final destination. The docs do mention the behavior as a note ( which I presume is precisely because it's a bit unintuitive ). My question then naturally becomes why does split behave like this?

Where is boost::algorithm::split documented ?

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As changing the behavior would be a breaking change, do you think it would be unreasonable to have a split_append?

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On Apr 14, 2014, at 2:16 PM, Gary Powell wrote:

ah ha!

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0/doc/html/string_algo/usage.html

On my (sadly, lengthy) to-do list is a version of split that returns a vector of string_ref. — Marshall

-Gary-

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Gary Powell wrote:

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Not seeing the docs but when in doubt refer to the code.

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0/boost/algorithm/string/split.hpp

-Gary-

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Edward Diener wrote:

...

On 4/14/2014 9:18 AM, Sebastian Karlsson wrote:

...

First of all I think it's a bit unintuitive that boost::algorithm::split swaps with target, I would've assumed it appended. The fact that it in effect clears target makes it cumbersome to incrementally split into a destination, as you need a new temporary for every call to split, and then explicitly transfer everything over to your final destination. The docs do mention the behavior as a note ( which I presume is precisely because it's a bit unintuitive ). My question then naturally becomes why does split behave like this?

Where is boost::algorithm::split documented ?

...

As changing the behavior would be a breaking change, do you think it would be unreasonable to have a split_append?

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