Removing everything after character (and also character)

Question

I have a string like this:

std::string string1 = \"xjdfhfakdjs%54k34k.-jk34\";

I need to get only \"\"xjdfhfakdjs\", but the string is dyna

Answer 1

std::string the_prefix_you_want = string1.substr(0, string1.find("%"));

See: http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/string/string/find/ and http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/string/string/substr/ for more details