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Explore the various string search functions provided by the C++ Standard Library, including find and its variations. Understand how to locate characters or substrings by position, search forward or backward, and work with different input types. This lesson helps you master string searching techniques to write more effective C++ code.

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C++ offers the ability to search in a string in many variations. Each variation exists in various overloaded forms.

ℹ️ Search is called find
Odd enough the algorithms for search in a string starts with the name find. If the search was successful, you get the index of type std::string::size_type, if not, you get the constant std::string::npos. The first character has an index of 0.

The find ...