Scanning Strings till no white space is found?

Hey Guys

Have tried the forums but failed to find a solution.

How can i scan a string lets say " homer1 = 2+1"
so that i am given the position as an integer of the first charector that is not a white space.

I have tried:

int temp = string1.find_first(!(' '));

but even i knew that wouldnt work d'oh!

can anyone help me out?

Thanks in advance

Maybe...

Code:

string string1( " homer1 = 2+1" );
int iPos = string1.find_first_not_of(' ')

Something like that I think, I've never used that string member function so I could be wrong about its usage.

nevermind guys sorry i had never heard of the find_first_not_of()

derrrr.

sorry for the hassle

yeh thats it mate sorry about posting the question just never searched the c libraries enough.

cheers for the response though