pattern matching

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Originally Posted by gunghomiller

I changed it to

and it displays "The number of times John was used is:0" three times. Which it used three times however i dont want the sentence to be displayed three times i want the number three to be displayed. I appreciate all the help immensly gents but the terms I do not know all of them.

So you need two changes. Firstly, somewhere you want to change the value of 'J' .
Secondly, you need to put your cout<< statement somewhere that it only prints once.

Have a look at the structure of the program, based on what you know about your output..

Code:

//Everything up here is executed once while (position != string::npos) { //Everything between these curly braces is executed per each occurrance of "John" position = quote.find("John", position +1); cout << "The number of times John was used is: " << j; } //Everything down here is executed once