How can I call or get a specifc characters in a string in C++?

look at using the substr() function

cramshark is almost right. string firstLetter = intro.substr(0,1); string theRest = intro.substr(2); The first argument to subtstr is the index of the first character in the result. The second argument is the maximum length of the result. If there's no second argument, or if it's specified as string::npos, or if it's greater than the number of characters in the rest of the string, then the rest of the string is returned. Find a reference, online or in a book, and look over the members in any class you're using. That's how you find this stuff out. For an online reference, I like http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/

I don't know very much C++, but this is the general function for that kind of call: string substr ( size_t pos = 0, size_t n = npos ) const; I assume that that is starting and ending point.