Case-Sensitive Substring Comparison: generalization of strncmp() : string compare « string « C++ Tutorial

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#include <iostream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;
int main( )
{
   string saying1( "this is a test" );
   string saying2( "this is another test" );

   // generalization of strncmp()
   cout << "\n\nCOMPARE SUBSTRINGS OF DIFFERENT LENGTHS AND INDEXES\n";
   if( saying1.substr( 2, 11 ) < saying2.substr( 14, 17 ) )
      cout << "\"" << saying1.substr( 2, 11 ) << "\" is less than \""
         << saying2.substr( 14, 17 ) << "\"";
   else if( saying1.substr( 2, 11 ) > saying2.substr( 14, 17 ) )
      cout << "\"" << saying1.substr( 2, 11 )
         << "\" is greater than \"" << saying2.substr( 14, 17 ) << "\"";
   else
      cout << "\"" << saying1.substr( 2, 11 ) << "\" is equal to \""
         << saying2.substr( 14, 17 ) << "\"";
}