added string tokenizer funtion that converts char * to a vector of c++ string tokens

src/string_utilities.cc

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
   GNU General Public License for more details.
 */
+#include <algorithm>
 
 #include "cdo_output.h"
 #include "dmemory.h"
@@ -22,6 +23,17 @@
 
 #define DBG 0
 
+int
+cstrSplitWithSeperator(const char *source_string, const char *seperator, std::vector<std::string> &split_string)
+{
+  std::stringstream ss(source_string);
+  std::string token;
+  while (std::getline(ss, token, *seperator))
+    {
+      split_string.push_back(token);
+    }
+  return split_string.size();
+}
 int
 cstrSplitWithSeperator(const char *source_string, const char *seperator, char ***ptr_split_string)
 {

src/string_utilities.h

@@ -17,14 +17,14 @@
 #ifndef STR_UTILITIES_H
 #define STR_UTILITIES_H
 
+int cstrSplitWithSeperator(const char *source_string, const char *seperator, std::vector<std::string> &split_string);
 int cstrSplitWithSeperator(const char *source_string, const char *seperator, char ***ptr_split_string);
 
 int cstrIsNumeric(const char *s);
 
-void cstrToUpperCase(char *sPtr);
+void cstrReplaceChar(char *str_in, char orig_char, char rep_char);
 
+void cstrToUpperCase(char *sPtr);
 void cstrToLowerCase(char *sPtr);
 
-void cstrReplaceChar(char *str_in, char orig_char, char rep_char);
-
 #endif