Brett; Simon, I originally wrote a C++ program to do what I want. Now I am trying to do it in ROOT. I thought that most of C++ was compatible with ROOT, but string::substr seems to be an exception. Here are some lines from my ROOT macro. const int commentstart=67; const int commentlength=180; string inputstring; string comments; (stuff) inputstring=/*(line from a file)*/ //Takes the comments section as a substring comments=inputstring.substr(commentstart, commentlength); When I run this ROOT actually dies. It does not spit an error. It does not give back a ROOT prompt. All I get back is my tsch prompt. Sincerely, Shawn Kwang On Monday 22 July 2002 20:30, Brett Viren wrote: > STL's string has > > string string::substr(begin_index, end_index). > > The indices count from 0. > > -Brett. > > Simon Dean writes: > > Hi Shawn, > > > > You could try doing > > > > char mystring[200] = <the_name_of_your_TString_here>->Data(); > > > > and then you could access whichever part of the string you wanted by > > using the index; mystring[67] or whatever. Obviously, 'mystring' needs > > to be big enough to accomodate your TString. > > > > Hope that helps, > > > > cheers, > > > > Simon > > > > On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Shawn Kwang wrote: > > > Roottalk, > > > > > > I want to extract a portion of a string (TString class). All I > > > know is that the first character of the portion to be extracted starts > > > at position 67. The portion is not constant so I can't use > > > TString::Substring (since it looks for a pattern). > > > > > > I thought there might be a ROOT function that does what I want, > > > TString:Strip but I am not sure. > > > > > > TIA, > > > Shawn Kwang
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