vector<int> parseInts(string str) 
{
    vector<int> vec;    // Declares a vector to store the ints
    stringstream ss(str);   // Declares a stringstream object to deal with the modification of the string
    char ch;
    int temp;
    
    while(ss)   // While the stringstream object does not hit a null byte
    {
        ss>>temp>>ch;   // Extract the comma seperated ints with the extraction >> operator
        vec.push_back(temp);   // Push the int onto the vector
    } 
    
    return vec; // Return the vector of ints
}