How to do std::string indexof in C++ that returns index of matching string?

I'm looking for a string indexof function from the std namespace that returns an integer of a matching string similar to the java function of the same name. Something like:

std::string word = "bob"; int matchIndex = getAString().indexOf( word ); 

where getAString() is defined like this:

std::string getAString() { ... } 

4 Answers

Try the find function.

Here is the example from the article I linked:

 string str1( "Alpha Beta Gamma Delta" ); string::size_type loc = str1.find( "Omega", 0 ); if( loc != string::npos ) { cout << "Found Omega at " << loc << endl; } else { cout << "Didn't find Omega" << endl; } 

It's not clear from your example what String you're searching for "bob" in, but here's how to search for a substring in C++ using find.

string str1( "Alpha Beta Gamma Delta" ); string::size_type loc = str1.find( "Omega", 0 ); if( loc != string::npos ) { cout << "Found Omega at " << loc << endl; } else { cout << "Didn't find Omega" << endl; } 

You are looking for the std::basic_string<> function template:

size_type find(const basic_string& s, size_type pos = 0) const; 

This returns the index or std::string::npos if the string is not found.

I'm not exactly sure what your example means, but for the stl string class, look into find and rfind