How to select characters in string?

So I'm working heavilly with Python right now, and one thing you can do it parse/select string pretty easily.

For example, if you wanted to create a variable and display a few letters, it'd be:


text = "Hello"
yo = text[1:4]
print yo

Output = "ell"


This seems simple, and to an extent I see it possible in C++. But all I can find is how to select a specific one character, using it like this:


string text = "Hello";
cout << text[1];

Output = "e"


But is there a way to do this selection with multiple characters, as I did in the Python example?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Code:

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string text = "Hello World";
cout << text.substr(0, 5);

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Output = Hello

substr(starting position (0 indexed), number of character);

string is a class defined in the STL (Standard Template Library).

This class a number of member functions defined to do string manipulation.

one of the member function is substr

substr(startingPosition, numberOfCharacters)

The string is assumed to start from the position 0, so calculate accordingly

since it is a class, it has to be invoked by the specifying the objectName.memberFunctionName();

//Sample Program, hope it helps
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{

string s = "Hello";

cout << s.substr(2,2);


return(0);
}

There is another way to deal with strings, using char. In this case, it is considered as an array of characters and the end of the string is marked with the character '\0'