In some cases, you may want to look for specific text in your string. It can be done using .find() or.rfind() method. Let's start with the .find() method. Here is the syntax:

It returns the index of the first character of the first match. Let's look at the example:

You can also specify the position of the first character in the string to be considered in the search.
It can be done using the pos argument. Any characters before the pos index are ignored in a search.

Here is an example of finding the first "code" starting from a 3-rd character.

The .find(str2) method finds the first occurrence of str2.
Alternatively you can find the last character of the last occurrence of str2 using the .rfind(str2) method. Here is the syntax of .rfind():

Here is an example:

So .rfind() is a reversed find.
Instead of finding the first occurrence, it finds the last one.
And instead of returning the first character of occurrence, it returns the last.

Note

If there is no match, both .find() and .rfind() return some weird number, npos of string.
This number can be accessed with string::npos.