C++ String Exercises: Second occurrence of a string within another string
C++ String: Exercise-41 with Solution
Write a C++ program that finds the position of the second occurrence of a string in another string. If the substring does not appear at least twice return -1.
Test Data:
("the qu qu", "qu") -> 7
("theququ", "qu") -> 5
("thequ", "qu") -> -1
Sample Solution:
C++ Code:
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
int test(std::string text, std::string sstr)
{
return text.find(sstr, text.find(sstr) + sstr.size());
}
int main()
{
string text = "the qu qu";
string sstr = "qu";
cout << "String: " << text;
cout << "\nSubstring: " << sstr;
cout << "\nPosition of the second occurrence of the said substring: " << test(text, sstr);
text = "theququ";
sstr = "qu";
cout << "\n\nString: " << text;
cout << "\nSubstring: " << sstr;
cout << "\nPosition of the second occurrence of the said substring: " << test(text, sstr);
text = "thequ";
sstr = "qu";
cout << "\n\nString: " << text;
cout << "\nSubstring: " << sstr;
cout << "\nPosition of the second occurrence of the said substring: " << test(text, sstr);
}
Sample Output:
String: the qu qu Substring: qu Position of the second occurrence of the said substring: 7 String: theququ Substring: qu Position of the second occurrence of the said substring: 5 String: thequ Substring: qu Position of the second occurrence of the said substring: -1
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C++ Programming: Tips of the Day
Why does the C++ map type argument require an empty constructor when using []?
This issue comes with operator[]. Quote from SGI documentation:
data_type&operator[](constkey_type& k) - Returns a reference to the object that is associated with a particular key. If the map does not already contain such an object, operator[] inserts the default object data_type().
If you don't have default constructor you can use insert/find functions. Following example works fine:
myMap.insert(std::map<int, MyClass>::value_type ( 1, MyClass(1) ) ); myMap.find( 1 )->second;
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