/* The following code example is taken from the book * "The C++ Standard Library - A Tutorial and Reference" * by Nicolai M. Josuttis, Addison-Wesley, 1999 * * (C) Copyright Nicolai M. Josuttis 1999. * Permission to copy, use, modify, sell and distribute this software * is granted provided this copyright notice appears in all copies. * This software is provided "as is" without express or implied * warranty, and with no claim as to its suitability for any purpose. */ #include #include #include #include #include using namespace std; class bothWhiteSpaces { private: const locale& loc; // locale public: /* constructor * - save the locale object */ bothWhiteSpaces (const locale& l) : loc(l) { } /* function call * - returns whether both characters are whitespaces */ bool operator() (char elem1, char elem2) { return isspace(elem1,loc) && isspace(elem2,loc); } }; int main() { string contents; // don't skip leading whitespaces cin.unsetf (ios::skipws); // read all characters while compressing whitespaces unique_copy(istream_iterator(cin), // beginning of source istream_iterator(), // end of source back_inserter(contents), // destination bothWhiteSpaces(cin.getloc())); // criterion for removing // process contents // - here: write it to the standard output cout << contents; }