detect_speech — Search

Checks for speech marks at the current offset and moves to the corresponding end of the speech marked block

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Interface

#include <codecogs/strings/search/detect_speech.h>

using namespace Strings::Search;

int detect_speech(const char* str, int offset)

This function looks for the existence of a speech mark, as in " or '. Upon finding either of these types of speech mark, the function will then find the corresponding end of the speech mark.

Parameters

str

This is the input string, with text that needs analysing.

offset

The location within str to search for the start of speech. If no speech is found at str[\a offset] then offset is returned.

Returns

The index immediately after the closing speech mark, or offset if str[\a offset] is not the start of a speech mark.