This has been taking me forever to figure out and i have researched so many different examples, but some seem so convoluted and have extra steps in them for reasons A,B,C….. This is what I need-Let’s say you have a string and we will call it string A

String A = “I<Like<Butterscotch<candies<so<much”

So the delimiter of course is ‘<‘

How do I parse this string to take out the delimiters? I then have to make objects of these strings and add them to an array of pointers.

Please see an example below:) Please ignore all the directives at the top. I hate guessing what I need and don’t need so I started including every one I need in all files (except for including files within others). I have spent 6+ hours researching parsing and I am getting nowhere, so I am officially done for the night…..

I am also confused by pointers I guess because I thought the line below would be a pointer to take my data from the Student class in my student header file and have it create an Array of Pointers, which I will then fill with objects using the ‘add’ method below…….. but it tells me-Cannot initialize a member subobject of type ‘Student *’ with an rvalue of type ‘string *’ (aka ‘basic_string<char> *’)…. I feel like I am taking a step forward then hitting a wall and bouncing back 2 steps while trying to learn this material…..

Student* classRosterArray = new string[5];

#pragma once
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <print>
#include <iomanip>
#include "student.hpp"
using namespace std;

class Roster
{
private:
    // Array of pointers, size = 5-- I thought I was supposed to use a pointer to reference the Student class.... and call the new array which we are adding objects into classRosterArray?
    Student* classRosterArray = new string[5];
    //string* classRosterArray = new string[5]; --Is this what is needed??
    
public:
    void parse(string row);
    void add(string studentId,
             string firstName,
             string lastName,
             string emailAddress,
             int age,
             int daysToComp3Course,
             DegreeProgram degreeProgram);
};