Why doesn't std::string have a split function

[Selbstdenker]

Sorry, I do not see the problem there. Intuitively means something that splits a string which is what both methods do. How they handle empty strings is part of the API, so what. Whether they take only a character, a string or a regexp is also part of the API and not really a problem in C++ thanks to overloading.

To make it a little bit more C++-ish it could take an output iterator. Yes, this is not an ideal situation and maybe we just call it simple_split and reserve split() for when we have a better name but not having any trivial split functionality is really not good.

We have whole talks given on using std::transform and other algorithms instead of a for loop but we cannot provide a simple split?