Thread: Searching and Comparing Strings Using Parsing

Without more details of what you want, we can't answer adequately. Here is a potential solution, however:

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <cstdlib>

namespace
{
  const std::string to_find = "arbitrary pattern";
}

int main()
{
  std::string search_buf;
  std::string::size_type found;

  // Fill search_buf with the data to search

  found = search_buf.find ( to_find );
  if ( found != search_buf.npos )
    std::cout<<"\""<< to_find <<"\" was found!"<<std::endl;
  else
    std::cout<<"\""<< to_find <<"\" was not found."<<std::endl;

  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

-Prelude