Going from string to stringstream to vector<int>

Question

I've this sample program of a step that I want to implement on my application. I want to push_back the int elements on the string separately, into a vector. How can I?

#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>

#include <vector>

using namespace std;

int main(){

    string line = "1 2 3 4 5"; //includes spaces
    stringstream lineStream(line);


    vector<int> numbers; // how do I push_back the numbers (separately) here?
    // in this example I know the size of my string but in my application I won't


    }

Answer 1

This is a classic example of std::back_inserter.

copy(istream_iterator<int>(lineStream), istream_iterator<int>(),
     back_inserter(numbers));

You can create the vector right from the start on, if you wish

vector<int> numbers((istream_iterator<int>(lineStream)), 
                    istream_iterator<int>());

Remember to put parentheses around the first argument. The compiler thinks it's a function declaration otherwise. If you use the vector for just getting iterators for the numbers, you can use the istream iterators directly:

istream_iterator<int> begin(lineStream), end;
while(begin != end) cout << *begin++ << " ";