Please, help with STL stringstream

Question

Why do I fail to extract an integer value into Num variable ?

#include <sstream>
#include <vector>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    string Digits("1 2 3");
    stringstream ss(Digits);
    string Temp;
    vector<string>Tokens;

    while(ss >> Temp)
        Tokens.push_back(Temp);

    ss.str(Tokens[0]);

    int Num = 0;
    ss >> Num;
    cout << Num;    //output: 0
}

Thanks

Answer 1

You have to reset all status flags (eofbit) and bring the stream into a good state (goodbit):

ss.clear(); // clear status flags
ss.str(Tokens[0]);

The reason is that if you keep extracting until the end, you will hit the end, and the eof flag will be set on that stream. After that, read operations will be canceled and you have to clear that flag out again. Anyway, after clearing and resetting the string, you can then go on extracting the integers.

Answer 2

Why are you reading into a temp string variable?

You can just read from the stringstream into an int...

int main()
{
    string Digits("1 2 3");
    stringstream ss(Digits);
    int Temp;
    vector<int> Tokens;

    while(ss >> Temp)
        Tokens.push_back(Temp);
}

Answer 3

When the stream extracts the last of the 3 digist "1 2 3" the eof state will be set. This is not cleared by the str() member,you need to do it yourself. Change your code to:

ss.clear();
ss.str(Tokens[0]);

Answer 4

STL! :P

stringstream ss("1 2 3");
vector<int> Tokens;
copy(istream_iterator<int>(ss), istream_iterator<int>(), back_inserter(Tokens));