Question

I would like to write a function which returns substring of a string.

f(what string, from which index, how many chars)

I have done it but using string class, but i would like to use char*, but I don’t know how. Could you please correct the code so it uses char* not string*? It is confusing in c++.

    #include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <cstdlib>
using namespace std;
//index - starting at, n- how many chars
string* subString(string s, int index, int n){
    string* newString = new string("");
    for(int i = index; i < s.length() && i < n + index; i++)
        *newString += s.at(i);
    return newString;
}


int main()
{   string s1 = "Alice has a cat";
    string* output = subString(s1, 2, 4);
    cout<<(*output)<<endl;
    system("pause");
    return 0;
}

Answer 1

#include <iostream>
#include <stdio.h>

using namespace std;

//index - starting at, n- how many chars
char* subString(char *s, int index, int n){
    char *res = new char[n + 1];
    sprintf(res, "%.*s", n, s + index);
    return res;
}


int main()
{   
    char* s1 = "Alice has a cat";
    char* output = subString(s1, 2, 4);
    cout << output << endl;
    system("pause");
    delete[] output;
    return 0;
}