ATL / WTL / STL

CString str;
ReadString(str);
ASSERT(!str && !str.GetLength());
<font color=blue>if</font> (!strcmp(str, <font color=gray>"string1"</font>)) {         <font color=green>//case "string1"</font>
    <font color=green>//treatment 1 ...</font>
}
<font color=blue>else if</font> (!strcmp(str, <font color=gray>"string2"</font>)) {    <font color=green>//case "string1"</font>
    <font color=green>//treatment 2 ...</font>
}
<font color=blue>else</font> {                                <font color=green>//default</font>
    <font color=green>//...</font>
}

class CBrowserView : public CWindowImpl<CBrowserView, CAxWindow>,
                     public IDispEventImpl<1, CBrowserView, &DIID_HTMLElementEvents2, &LIBID_MSHTML, 4, 0>
{
public:
   typedef IDispEventImpl<1, CBrowserView, &DIID_HTMLElementEvents2, &LIBID_MSHTML, 4, 0> HTMLElementEventsSink;
   
   BEGIN_SINK_MAP(CBrowserView)
      SINK_ENTRY_EX(1, DIID_HTMLElementEvents2, DISPID_HTMLELEMENTEVENTS_ONMOUSEOVER, OnMouseOver)
      SINK_ENTRY_EX(1, DIID_HTMLElementEvents2, DISPID_HTMLELEMENTEVENTS_ONMOUSEOUT, OnMouseOut)
   END_SINK_MAP()

   void __stdcall OnMouseOver(IHTMLEventObj* pEvent);
   void __stdcall OnMouseOut(IHTMLEventObj* pEvent);
};

	string s = "xxxcdfdftbvbfggbnghghg Name: Todd Shields ccfgfgnfgnrri DOB:091580 hgertrtreggeegegggggggggggg";<br />
<br />
	size_t n = s.find_first_of("Name : ") + 7; // ( 7 is the length of the string we searched for<br />
	size_t nLast = s.find_first_of(" ", n);<br />
	nLast = s.find_first_of(" ", nLast + 1); // Need to search twice because of the space in the name<br />
<br />
	string name = s.substr(n, nLast - n);

#include <string>
#include <iostream>

std::string& trim_back (std::string& str)
{
 using namespace std; 
 while (str.size()) {
  if (isspace (str[str.size()-1])) {
   str.erase(str.size()-1);
  } else {
   break;
  }
 }
 return str;
}


int main()
{
 using namespace std;

 string test ("2003     "),
  whitespaceOnly (" \n\t"),
  empty;

 cout  << '|' << trim_back(test) << '|' << endl;
 cout  << '|' << trim_back(whitespaceOnly) << '|' << endl;
 cout  << '|' << trim_back(empty) << '|' << endl;

 return 0;
}

#include <boost/algorithm/string.hpp>
...
std::string str = "Hello  ";
boost::trim(str);

inline string trim_right(const string& source, const string& t = " ")
{
	string str = source;
	return str.erase(source.find_last_not_of(t) + 1);
}

inline string trim_left(const string& source, const string& t = " ")
{
	string str = source;
	return str.erase(0, source.find_first_not_of(t));
}

inline string trim(const string& source, const string& t = " ")
{
	return trim_left(trim_right(source, t), t);
}

inline string& trim(string& s, const string& t)
{
	string::size_type st1, st2;
	st1 = s.find_first_not_of(t);
	
	if (st1 != string::npos)
	{
		st2 = s.find_last_not_of(t) + 1;
		s = s.substr(st1, st2 - st1);
	}
	else
	{
		s.clear();
	}

	return s;
}