Answer to Question #46262 in C for erico fire

Question

write a program that will accept a string and character to search.the function will call a function ,which will search occurrence position of the character in the string and return its position .function should return - 1 if the character is not found in the string.

Answer 1

#include <string>
#include <iostream>
int findChar (std::string& sentence, char key) {
    for ( int i = 0; i < sentence.length(); i++ ) {
        if ( sentence[i] == key ) {
            return i;
        }
    }
    return -1;
}
int main () {
    std::string sentence = "This is a test sentence";
    std::cout << "Here is our string " << "\"" << sentence << "\"" << std::endl;
    std::cout << "The symbol 'e' can be found on the " << findChar(sentence, 'e') << " position in our string" << std::endl;
    std::cout << "The symbol 'l' can not be found in the string, a result of what we have " << findChar(sentence, 'l')  << std::endl;
}