How to split a string into a pre determined amount of parts

[noahk81]

I am making a function that has to split an inputted string into 3 parts. The string will be inputted in the following format, Book Title|Year Published|Author . Each part is split using the '|' character, I have to take this string and assign them to three different variables and I am unsure of how to do this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

[Ganado]

If you are able to directly extract user input, you can simply use getline with cin.

For example, if the user inputs The Hobbit|1937|Tolkien, then you can do:

string title;
getline(cin, title, '|');

string year;
getline(cin, year, '|');

string author;
getline(cin, author); // last one, no | character