How do you search a std::string for a substring in C++?

Question

I\'m trying to parse a simple string in C++. I know the string contains some text with a colon, followed immediately by a space, then a number. I\'d like to extract just t

Answer 1

Similar to Konrads answer, but using istream::ignore:

int number;
std::streamsize max = std::numeric_limits::max();
if (!(std::cin.ignore(max, ':') >> number)) {
    std::cerr << "No number found." << std::endl;
} else {
    std::cout << "Number found: " << number << std::endl;
}