Replacing part of String

[EUqDSL3A]

I want to replace part of string

ex.
I have this string
turd!turd.turd.456.tird

I want to remove anything past the ! (and the exclamation point itself) and return it back to the user
as
turd

how can I search for the ! and remove everything after that

[guestgulkan]

Can you change your user name please - It means something very
disgusting in English (or maybe you already know that??)

[EUqDSL3A]

I wasn't aware that I could change it, I'll change it once I find the setting.

But on topic, you have any idea on how I can accomplish this?

[guestgulkan]

assuming we are talking about c++ strings - then string has some find member functions.
Like find, find_first_of, find_first_not_of
Check out the reference documentation on this site.

You can use ( a suitable one of these) to find the position of the !.

You can use the substr member function to extract the substring.

[EUqDSL3A]

Q:

assuming we are talking about c++ strings

A:

Replacing part of String

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Q:

You can use the substr member function to extract the substring.

A:

I know methods how to replace strings

well like I said, I know how to do that already, what I need

how can I search for the ! and remove everything after that

[guestgulkan]

have you looked at the find_first_of function?
See here
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/string/string/find_first_of/

Can't you put the two together??

1. use find_first_of function to find the position of the ! within the original_string.
2. use substr function to get the substring (starting at position 0 to the point where the ! was found).

3. reassign the substring to the original_string. (original_string = substring).

straightforward.

[mcleano]

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The title gives no indication as to whether you're talking about string objects, or C-strings.