The find() Function

◀ The replace() Function▶ The rfind() Function Amazon You can use the find() function to locate the first occurrence of a string, a character array, or a character. How cool is that? If the target is not found, the functions return string::npos. These functions are useful in a situation where you need to parse a string which contains some sort of delimiter.


The first function searches the invoking object for s starting at index pos and returns the index where s is first located. The second one searches invoking object for cs starting at index pos and returns the index where cs is first located.

The third one searches invoking object for c starting at index pos and returns the index where c is first located. As noted before, if the target is not found, all functions return string::npos.

Here are several examples:

string s = "Ja yo Afu! Yo yo yo!";
string s2 = "yo";
char *s3 = "you";
char c = '!';
unsigned int temp;  /* string::npos is a big number */
temp = s.find(s2);  /* temp is 3 */
temp = s.find(s2, 4);  /* temp is 14 */
temp = s.find(s3);  /* temp is string::npos */	
temp = s.find(s3, 6);  /* temp is string::npos */
temp = s.find(c);  /* temp is 9 */
temp = s.find(c, 10);  /* temp is 19 */

There are times when you want to locate a string from the end of another string.

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◀ The replace() Function▶ The rfind() Function