[c++] c++ boost split string

I'm using the boost::split method to split a string as this:

I first make sure to include the correct header to have access to boost::split:

#include <boost/algorithm/string.hpp>

then:

vector<string> strs;
boost::split(strs,line,boost::is_any_of("\t"));

and the line is like

"test   test2   test3"

This is how I consume the result string vector:

void printstrs(vector<string> strs)
{
    for(vector<string>::iterator it = strs.begin();it!=strs.end();++it)
    {
        cout << *it << "-------";
    }

    cout << endl;
}

But why in the result strs I only get "test2" and "test3", shouldn't be "test", "test2" and "test3", there are \t (tab) in the string.

Updated Apr 24th, 2011: It seemed after I changed one line of code at printstrs I can see the first string. I changed

cout << *it << "-------";

to

cout << *it << endl;

And it seemed "-------" covered the first string somehow.

My best guess at why you had problems with the ----- covering your first result is that you actually read the input line from a file. That line probably had a \r on the end so you ended up with something like this:

-----------test2-------test3

What happened is the machine actually printed this:

test-------test2-------test3\r-------

That means, because of the carriage return at the end of test3, that the dashes after test3 were printed over the top of the first word (and a few of the existing dashes between test and test2 but you wouldn't notice that because they were already dashes).