find if a string contains a quoted string

[imhotep]

bool isQstr(string const& str)
{
size_t found = str.find("\"");
return found != string::npos;
}
/* I am trying to check whether a string contains a quoted string, I used the escape character but it does not even recognize it*/

[Banfa]

I'm not quite sure what your talking about, your function works fine for me.

It does have some issues, mainly that it just looks for a string containing a single " character rather than an actual quoted string, which might eight contain 2 " characters or even have " characters as the first and last characters of the string depending on how you wish to define it.

You can avoid the escape if you wish because find will work on a character so size_t found = str.find('"'); would work too.