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

I believe that will work.

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

Answer 2

Did a C-like thing which does work in its current form, but certainly more clunky than the methods shown above:

#include <windows.h>
void main ()
{
    int i;
    wchar_t searchString[100];
    wchar_t * stringReturn;
    memset(searchString, L'\0', sizeof(stringReturn));
    wcscpy_s(searchString, 100, L"String\\ to search");
    stringReturn = wcschr (searchString, '\\');
    if (stringReturn)
    {
        for (i = 0; i < (int)(stringReturn - searchString); i++) stringReturn[i] = searchString[i];
        stringReturn[i] = L'\0';
        wcscpy_s(searchString, 100, stringReturn);
    }
}

Can be easily modified to work for dynamic strings.

Answer 3

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