what does npos mean?
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the book im using is showing me string::npos but it does not give a thorough explanation could someone give me a thorough explanation .
it's an enumeration (for -1, as I recall). basically, it's shorthand for "this wasn't found anywhere in the string"
"The largest possible value of type size_type. That is, size_type(-1)", where size_type is "an unsigned integral type." Therefore, npos is the "rollover" value of that unsigned type. It serves to indicate an index that std::string cannot support, and many indexing methods return it to indicate "end of string".
In VC.NET, npos is defined as a "static const size_type npos = -1", which indicates a non-position. It is returned when a find function fails.
[edit] damn!
[edit] damn!
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