size_t find ( const string& str, size_t pos = npos ) const;
size_t find ( const char* s, size_t pos, size_t n ) const;
size_t find ( const char* s, size_t pos = npos ) const;
size_t find ( char c, size_t pos = npos ) const;

Find last occurrence of content in string

Searches the string for the content specified in either str, s or c, and returns the position of the last occurrence in the string.

When pos is specified, the search only includes characters between the beginning of the string and position pos, ignoring any possible occurrences after pos.

Parameters

str

string to be searched for in the object. The entire content of str must be matched in some part of the string to be considered a match.

s

Array with a sequence of characters.
In the second member function version, the size of the content to be matched is only determined by parameter n.
In the third version, a null-terminated sequence is expected, and its end is determined by the first occurrence of a null character in it.

n

Length of sequence of characters to search for.

c

Individual character to be searched for.

pos

Position of the first character in the string to be taken into consideration for possible matches. The default value npos indicates that the entire string is searched.

Return Value

Example

// string::rfind
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main ()
{
  string str ("The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.");
  string key ("sixth");
  size_t found;

  found=str.rfind(key);
  if (found!=string::npos)
    str.replace (found,key.length(),"seventh");

  cout << str << endl;

  return 0;
}

Output:

The sixth sick sheik's seventh sheep's sick.

Basic template member declarations

typedef typename Allocator::size_type size_type;
size_type rfind ( const basic_string& str, size_type pos = npos ) const;
size_type rfind ( const charT* s, size_type pos, size_type n ) const;
size_type rfind ( const charT* s, size_type pos = npos ) const;
size_type rfind ( charT c, size_type pos = npos ) const;

See also