C++: char* to string, converting? rewriting program? need substr!
 

Hi there!

I'm writing an app in C++.. I need a function similar to SUBSTR in the string class. however, I'm doing it the char way (no good reason why, though)

I want to print "messy" from an index value of 6 (or so). But I can't seem to do find a function to do this in the classic string.h

How would I convert this to string class? or, is there a method of doing what I want in string.h?

Thanks for any help.

Relevant code is below.

char buffer[1000];
char buffer1[1000];
char titlestr;
char * messy;
if (! messagefile2.is_open())
{ cout << "Error opening file"; exit (1); }

while (! messagefile2.eof())
{
messagefile2.getline(buffer,1000);
strcat (buffer, "\n");
strcat (buffer1, buffer);
}
cout << buffer1;
// memcpy (titlestr,buffer,strlen(buffer)+1);
messy = strstr (buffer1, "Title:");
messy = strtok (messy, "\n");
cout << messy << "\n";

messy = messy+7;

omg!

thanks lrt2003 :)

I would also suggest considering the good old C function "sprintf" which is getting out of fashion nowadays but which is extremely powerfull.