Question

My string is about 14 characters long and I have to move a character from somewhere in the string to the very front and I can not delete the character that already sits in myString[0]. How do I do it?

Answer 1

std::string x = "foobar";
x.insert(0, 1, x[3]); // insert the 4th character at the beginning
x.erase(4, 1);  // erase the 5th character 
                // (5th because the preceding operation added a character

See the respective member functions of basic_string.