Question

Im trying to have the boolean found_word to return true if it finds the word/character and false if it doesn’t, but it returns true ALWAYS, no matter what I write in the text. The loop itself works, already tried that. IOStream and string are included.

while(timestorun){
    found_word = text.find("khgdawjugfdjhawbdjkhsadgawkdsa");

    if(found_word){
        cout << "FOUND!!!" << endl;
    }
    else if(!found_word){
        cout << "Found problem!!!!!"<< endl;
    }
    timestorun--;
}

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

You’re supposed to compare with npos. find doesn’t return a boolean value.

found_word = text.find("khgdawjugfdjhawbdjkhsadgawkdsa") != std::string::npos;

0, which is false, would only be returned if the substring was found at index 0.

Also, your second condition is redundant – if found_word is false, I personally guarantee !found_word will be true.