Recipe 4.9. Finding Things in Strings

Problem

You want to search a string for something. Maybe it's a single character, another string, or one of (or not of) an unordered set of characters. And, for your own reasons, you have to find it in a particular way, such as the first or last occurrence, or the first or last occurrence relative to a particular index.

Solution

Use one of basic_string's "find" member functions. Almost all start with the word "find," and their name gives you a pretty good idea of what they do. Example 4-15 shows how some of the find member functions work.