I'm writing a program to parse a user entered string. My textbook does not include the .find() function, but I found it in an old C++ book (Ivor Horton's Beginning C++, the Complete Language) is the .find() considered bad, or depricated? It seems to work really well, but I don't want to use things that are not up to standard, I want to avoid bad habits, as I've got enough I'm trying to break already.
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Jump to PostThe .find() function (in string class) is perfectly fine. I've never heard anybody say that there was anything wrong with it. It's a simple function to find a matching character or string within a string, what could go wrong with that?
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