The problem is somewhere else in your code, because this works:
string line("test\ttest2\ttest3");
vector<string> strs;
boost::split(strs,line,boost::is_any_of("\t"));
cout << "* size of the vector: " << strs.size() << endl;
for (size_t i = 0; i < strs.size(); i++)
cout << strs[i] << endl;
and testing your approach, which uses a vector iterator also works:
string line("test\ttest2\ttest3");
vector<string> strs;
boost::split(strs,line,boost::is_any_of("\t"));
cout << "* size of the vector: " << strs.size() << endl;
for (vector<string>::iterator it = strs.begin(); it != strs.end(); ++it)
{
cout << *it << endl;
}
Again, your problem is somewhere else. Maybe what you think is a \t character on the string, isn't. I would fill the code with debugs, starting by monitoring the insertions on the vector to make sure everything is being inserted the way its supposed to be.
Output:
* size of the vector: 3
test
test2
test3