Date: 2012may4 Language: C/C++ Level: beginner Q. How do I get the first character of a std::string ? A. Like this:

std::string mystring; char first_char; first_char = mystring[0];

You can make function that does it:

inline char getfirstchar(std::string &s) { // If the string is empty this function will return \0 which // is good. So we don't need to do a special check for that. return s[0]; }