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

const std::string pattern(": ");
std::string s("Sectors: 4095");
size_t num_start = s.find(pattern) + pattern.size();