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I'm taking an intro C++ class, the only thing I have experience with is Java (only thing offered and my self-teaching has been with irrelevant things such as lisp) and have a quick question.

I'm trying to break the lines of a text file into separate strings to be input into a struct, using a colon as the token. I have no idea how to go about this in C++ though, can someone shed some light here?

I don't need nor want for someone to write my program for me, I'm just not sure how to segregate the lines into distinct strings.

>>6
can always get around with mutexes.
You'll have to lock out all the other threads for the entire duration of tokenization, it's just not feasible.