Thread: C4267 conversion from 'size_t' to 'int'

Hello,

I am getting two instances of the warning C4267 in my function. This warning says: 'initializing' : conversion from 'size_t' to 'int', possible loss of data

I looked this up on the internet and it doesn't seem to be a great big deal, but I was wondering if there was a method I could use to rewrite the function so I can get a clean compile.

Code:

// This program will count the occurrences of a string within a string.
#include <iostream>  // cin, cout, <<, >>
#include <string>    // string
using namespace std;


int count;
int occurCount(string quote)
{
	
 cout << quote << endl;   // quote will come from a driver file

 int position = quote.find ("a spider", 0);   // warning C4267
	 if (position == string::npos)
	 count = 0;
	 else count = 1;
                        while (position != string::npos)
	 {
	 position = quote.find ("a spider", position + 1); //C4267
             
	 if (position > 0)
                 {
                 count++;				 
	 }			 			 
	 }
	 return count;
}

I am sorry about the indentation/spacing. It looks alot better in Visual Studio.