Removing quotes from a string

[luq]

Hi,

I'm new at C++ and I with some source I've found online I was able to copy a textfile to a string. But the textfile consists out of words with (double) quotes. And I want to remove all the (double) quotes in text. But I have no idea how to. Tried some stuff with replace etc. but nothing worked.. can anybody help me out?

Greetings, LuQ

In the string they are put in all quotes are probably escaped, (since it doesnt gives any error), but the textfile looked like this:

Some text with "random" quotes " in it. I want to " remov"e them.  

[jsmith]

std::string::find( '"' );

will return std::string::npos if there are no double quotes in the string or the index of the first one.

std::string::erase( pos, count );

will remove "count" characters from the string beginning at position pos.

Write the following loop (pseudo-code):

first_quote = find_first_quote( str );
while ( there is a first_quote ) {
    erase_first_quote( str, first_quote );
    first_quote = find_first_quote( str );
}

[Duthomhas]

There's a standard algorithm to do that.

#include <algorithm>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main()
  {
  string s;
  cout << "Please enter a string containing \"double-quotes\"\n> " << flush;
  getline( cin, s );

  // Remove all double-quote characters
  s.erase(
    remove( s.begin(), s.end(), '\"' ),
    s.end()
    );

  cout << s << endl;
  return 0;
  }

Hope this helps.

[luq]

Ok thank you very much! I will test it this afternoon, I think (and hope) both solutions will fit. Thanks again for the quick response.

Edit:

It works, I've managed to store it in a class (my first one ever hehe). Both solutions work by the way!