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    How do I detect a quoted substring in a string?

    am trying to determine if a string contains a quoted substring.
    This is my code that gives me a compile error: "ai3.cpp:162:37: warning: character constant too long for its type"

    Code:
    		//if the line contains 'class="wikitable"'
    		string findString = 'class="wikitable"';
    			
    		size_t pos = str.find(findString);
                    if (pos != string::npos) {
                            cout << "Substring found at position " << pos << endl;
                    }
    I've tried:
    Code:
    "'class=\"wikitable\"'"
    but str.find doesn't find my substring.

    So, can anyone suggest how I may search for the presence of a quoted substring?

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    Re: How do I detect a quoted substring in a string?

    And what does the str.find return?
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    Re: How do I detect a quoted substring in a string?

    > This is my code that gives me a compile error: "ai3.cpp:162:37: warning: character constant too long for its type"
    The outer string needs to be in double quotes, and the inner ones escaped.

    Like so
    Code:
    string findString = "class=\"wikitable\"";

    This isn't Python, where '' and "" are equivalent.

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    Re: How do I detect a quoted substring in a string?

    or you can use raw strings

    Code:
    #include <iostream>
    #include <string>
    
    int main() {
    	const std::string findString { R"(class="wikitable")" };
    
    	std::cout << findString << '\n';
    }
    which displays:

    Code:
    class="wikitable"
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