C++ Question, tailoring a string!?

ok so the basis of my program is that it reads in a bunch of strings from a text file, and i want it to work with any kind of words.

so it could have a sentence like "Gee - Look over there!"

and i want it to read into a vector of strings so that it looks like with index - value

0 - gee

1 - null (hyphen is erased)

2 - look

3 - over

4 - there (exclamation is dead)

my code is the following

int main(int argc, char **argv){

//using vector to read in all words

vector<WordNode> word_storage;

//vector containing stopwords

vector<string> STOP_WORDS;

//fill stop words vector

STOP_WORDS = getStopWords();

//used to keep track of how many times the loop is cycling

unsigned int count = 0;

//argument for ARGC...

ifstream fin(argv[1]);

//fill word_storage

while(!fin.eof()){

string word;

fin >> word;

//cout << word << endl;

word = fixString(word);