C++ equivalent of Python String Slice?

Question

In python I was able to slice part of a string; in other words just print the characters after a certain position. Is there an equivalent to this in C++?

Python Code

Answer 1

std::string text = "Apple Pear Orange";
std::cout << std::string(text.begin() + 6, text.end()) << std::endl;  // No range checking at all.
std::cout << text.substr(6) << std::endl; // Throws an exception if string isn't long enough.

Note that unlike python, the first doesn't do range checking: Your input string needs to be long enough. Depending on your end-use for the slice there may be other alternatives as well (such as using an iterator range directly instead of making a copy like I do here).