Jinx

I am trying to convert a large string with multiple lines to a vector of strings

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int spot=0;
vector<string> board;
while ( text.npos != text.find('\n',spot))
{
int pos = text.find('\n');
board.push_back (text.substr(spot,pos));
spot=pos;
}
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Was what I as trying but it doesn't seem to be working?
Any suggestions?

lets say text equals
20
BLUE apple
GREEN square
GREEN apple
BLUE apple
BLUE square

DaWei

Post more code, that's insufficient. Put it in code tags, please, and read the forum's faq/rules regarding that issue, and more.

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The Dark

When you find the pos again inside the loop, you are looking from the start again. Change:
to:

also, you need to start looking after the current \n, so change:
to

As DaWei said, use code tags and if it still doesn't work, say what is going wrong.

The Dark

Oh, and in this line
pos is the position in the string, starting from spot, so you would want to use pos-spot as the amount of characters to copy.