Can you make custom operators in C++?

Question

Is it possible to make a custom operator so you can do things like this?

if (\"Hello, world!\" contains \"Hello\") ...

Note: this is a sepa

Answer 1

Your suggestion would be nothing more than syntactic sugar for:

if( contains( "Hello, world!", "Hello" ) ...

and in fact there are already a functions to do that in both cstring and std::string. Which is perhaps a bit like answering "is it a good idea?" but not quite; rather asking "why would you need/want to?"