Making a custom istream manipulator

I want to make a custom istream manipulator that reads 2 characters from the input, then skips 2 characters from the input, and does that until it runs out of any input.

For example, if I have code like this:

std::string str;
std::cin >> skipchar >> str;

Where skipchar is my manipulator, if the user enters 1122334455, str should contain 113355.

This is what I've got so far, I don't know what I should put in the while loop condition to make this code work properly:

istream& skipchar(istream& stream)
{
    char c;

    while(1)
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < 2; ++i)
            stream >> c;

        for (int i = 0; i < 2; ++i)
            stream.ignore(1, '\0');
    }

    return stream;
}

Any help would be appreciated.

That's a very nice question. I don't know if it's possible. But I implemented something different which gives you the same short syntax you wanted, by overloading the >> operator with a new class called Skip2. Here is the code (which I really enjoyed writing! :-) )

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <istream>
#include <sstream>

using namespace std;

class Skip2 {
public:
    string s;
};

istream &operator>>(istream &s, Skip2 &sk) 
{
    string str;
    s >> str;

    // build new string
    ostringstream build;
    int count = 0;
    for (char ch : str) {
        // a count "trick" to make skip every other 2 chars concise
        if (count < 2) build << ch;
        count = (count + 1) % 4;
    }

    // assign the built string to the var of the >> operator
    sk.s = build.str();

    // and of course, return this istream
    return s;
}



int main()
{
    istringstream s("1122334455");
    Skip2 skip;

    s >> skip;
    cout << skip.s << endl;

    return 0;
}