Dave McKay first used computers when punched paper tape was in vogue, and he has been programming ever since. After over 30 years in the IT industry, he became a full-time technology journalist. His ...

In C++ std::string, have you ever wanted to smartly extract a part of a string, such as pulling out just the first word 'Hello' from 'Hello, World!', or taking only the part after 'World'? I want to ...

Gets a substring beginning at the specified location and having the specified length. Location at which to begin extracting characters. If a negative number is given, it is treated as strLength + ...

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