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Find all substring's occurrences and locations

I'm writing a program to parse some data saved as text files. What I am trying to do is find the location of every needle in a haystack. I already can read the file in and determine the number of occurrences, but I am looking to find the index also.

Solution 
  • string str,sub; // str is string to search, sub is the substring to search for

vector<size_t> positions; // holds all the positions that sub occurs within str

size_t pos = str.find(sub, 0);
while(pos != string::npos)
{
    positions.push_back(pos);
    pos = str.find(sub,pos+1);
}

    Edit I misread your post, you said substring, and I assumed you meant you were searching a string. This will still work if you read the file into a string.