c++ std::find specify starting position

Question

Is it possible to specify the starting position for the string being searched with std::find?

something like

std::string str = "kjsdfsdxksldfjsldjf";
int position = str.find("x", 2);

So it will start searching from index 2? I have a recursive function and need to specify the next starting pos (I'm not interested in searching every occurrence of the character with while/for loop)

Yes, the [second overload](http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/basic_string/find) here does exactly that. Does your code not work? What's your question exactly? — Ami Tavory, May 26 '17 at 21:55

Izaya · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-26T22:09:49.583

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Yes according to this http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/basic_string/find second argument is position of the first character in the string to be considered in the search.

edited May 26 '17 at 22:09

answered May 26 '17 at 21:55

Izaya

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Rather use en.cppreference.com cplusplus.com is an unreliable and buggy resource. – πάντα ῥεῖ May 26 '17 at 22:07
@πάνταῥεῖ just curious but can you point me to a bug on cplusplus? – Logman May 26 '17 at 22:12
@Logman I don't have one at hand now, but seen bugs several times. Especially in their examples. – πάντα ῥεῖ May 26 '17 at 22:13
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@Logman See [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6520052/whats-wrong-with-cplusplus-com) for examples. – πάντα ῥεῖ May 26 '17 at 22:15
@πάνταῥεῖ yes some examples there are "not good quality" ;). But actually I never found any bug in reference. I used them before cppreference. Anyway good to know. – Logman May 26 '17 at 22:17

c++ std::find specify starting position

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