is there any STL algorithm or a standard way of finding how many occurences of particular substring are there in a string? For example in string:
How do you do at ou
the string "ou" appears twice. I tried some STL algorithms with and without predicates but what I found is that those algorithms from STL want to compare components of string which in my case is char but cannot? compare substrings. I come up with something like this:
str - string
obj - substring we re looking for
std::string::size_type count_subs(const std::string& str, const std::string& obj)
{
std::string::const_iterator beg = str.begin();
std::string::const_iterator end = str.end();
std::string::size_type count = 0;
while ((beg + (obj.size() - 1)) != end)
{
std::string tmp(beg, beg + obj.size());
if (tmp == obj)
{
++count;
}
++beg;
}
return count;
}
thank you.